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MISS GENEVIEVE--OUR COVER GIRL

This is a personal true story, and I will write it in the first person. My story will confirm the theory that not all transvestites form their cross-dressing habits at an early age.

I once expressed an opinion in writing that, in ef- fect said, that transvestites are harmless, silly, eccen- trics who waste much of their lives with their redicu - lous habit of cross dressing. I said many other harsh things about " jerks" who swish around in skirts. I have since eaten those words. At the time I expressed those views I was not a transvestite and I had never had an experience of dressing in feminine clothing. I cannot re-call any experience of childhood, adolescence, or young adulthood that would have had any transvestic influence on me. I had no effeminate, habits, mannerisms or desires.

I had lived what could be considered a normal life, except for three years in the infantry as a non-commiss- ioned officer in the European area in World War II. While in the service I encountered a few transvestites and saw some perform in amateur stage productions I viewed them with disdain and said to myself, "You'd never catch me wearing female clothes like that!" I had some college work but did not finish. I had considerable special train- ing in business in a business college after the war. I married at age 21, and have been very happy in my married life. I am the proud father of two children.

For over two years beginning in about 1952 I engag- ed in some extensive research and writing that brought me in contact with a number of professional female imper- sonators and some other transvestites all over the US and Europe. Even this relationship did not instill any "urge" in me to dress as a woman In fact, I was somewhat repul- sed at the idea of men in feminine apparel. At best I thought it funny and ridiculous. I had learned that there were not nearly as many omosexuals among men who dressed