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A DOCTOR BECOMES A TRANSVESTITE

(anonymous)

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(((Editor's Note: This "case-history" was sent to Trans- vestia by a friend and subscriber because he thought it an unusual story--and it is. This is the first of a series of life stories which we will print. The ones we select to print we have reason to believe are substantially true and they are accepted primarily because they will illustrate origins of the TV impulse other than the orthodox (and I'm sure frequently false) explanations such as long hair till 5 or 6, "mother wanted a girl", "I wore dresses till I was x years old" etc. etc. I feel it is highly probable that people who acquired the TV impulse in other ways and later in age are not the ones who turn up in the psychiatrist's office leaving the doctors to study the phenomenon on the basis of the most mixed up patients not on the most stable and integrated ones.)))

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I am a healthy, ambitious, 42 year old man. I am a Doctor (Pathology) and own and operate my own laboratory, with four persons in my employ. I married at age 25, but lost my lovely wife in an auto accident in 1951, I am single I am from a well adjusted, happy family. My parents, both now dead, were well educated, good citizens and lived what I believe was a normal life in all their human relationships including sex. My two brothers and one sister are also per- fectly normal, all married, and each has children.

My parents were residents of a Chicago suburb where I grew up. I served in the military in both World War II and the Korean war. After this latter period I went to a large city on the Atlantic coast where I now live and practice. I live alone except for about 100 tropical fish. I enjoy a substantial income and want for nothing in the way of en- tertainment, travel etc. My hobbies are tropical fish & guns