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I have made contact with a practicing psychologist who is working for his Ph.D. at USC. He is writing his thesis on Transvestism. Being a psychologist he is naturally going at the problem by psychological methods. He has developed several tests designed to reveal something of the inner as- pects and motivations of TVs. To do this the questions are: of the non-obvious type. That is, the purpose of asking them is not clear to the subject, but they are carefully designed along accepted psychological lines to bring out certain factors of importance.

I am helping him by making contacts with the TVs living in So. Calif. so that he can have some personal interviews, but there are not enough for statistical evaluation of re- sults so I have arranged to assist him by mail. Sometime after you receive this issue you will also receive an en- velope with his tests in it. I hope you will cooperate by taking them and returning them to me. Please note that the psychologist will at no time know anything about the individual taking the test except what is in the test which does not ask any socially revealing questions. I alone will address the envelopes of tests which he will provide. When completed they will be returned to Chev. Pubs. aad will then be removed from the envelopes and returned to him: AT NO TIME WILL HE HAVE YOUR NAMES OR ADDRESSES! If you wish to or are willing to put down your code number it might prove useful in comparing the psychological type with the factual information provided in the TRANSVESTIA quest- ionaire, but this is optional with you.

Cooperation on this plan is important to our cause for this: reason: As you all know professional literature to date is not based either on a large number of cases nor even on vory well adjusted persons, most of the cases reported can be considered as crazy mixed-up kids. Therefore it is in the interest of all of us to try to gather some information somewhere near reality so that the conclusions reached will have some practical use. Having an entrance into the acad- emic field thru this man means that papers can be written in professional and lay journals, the subject can be dis- cussed psychologically and the general state of public awareness and understanding raised--something we all want.