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operation illegal (mayhem). At least in the United States.

Naturally, such an operation never produces a woman. The patient is genetically (as determined by their chromosomes) a male, but an operation can produce a castrated male who could, however, be "feminized" by treatment and could, without breaking any law, dress and live as a woman. Such is the overwhelming heart's desire of these people.

I know about twenty of them who have been operated on, mostly abroad, a few in this country. (The case of Christine Jorgensen was the most publicized.) All of them, without exception, are--from the emotional point of view--happier people, better integrated and less neurotic. Therefore, society has been served, not harmed, by the surgeon's effort. It is only ignorance, prejudice and bigotry that can deny those transsexualists their right to their particular pursuit of happiness.

When sex censorship and sex laws on one hand and meek compli- ance on the other rob them of their privilege as human beings and American citizens, it is time to voice criticism and opposition.

THE UNFREE by William J. O'Connell

This writing is about Freedom. It is about how freedom was denied to one person and thus potentially to all, not in Russia or Germany but in the United States dedicated to its defense. It is about me, because I am involved; but my theme is freedom. It is about how I was engaged in the pursuit of happiness. How I chose a certain goal, being sure that my reaching it could not harm anyone else in the pursuit of his happiness. And how I was frustrated in the pursuit of my happiness by men who were bigoted and self-right- eous, constituting themselves into a sort of modern lynch mob, the more dangerous for being subtle. I do not ask you, reader, to be concerned about my frustration. Be concerned, though, for freedom,

mine and yours.

The happiness I chose to pursue-had to pursue, more precisely- was, simply and shockingly, and operation to change my ostensible sex; for I am a person, physically male, whose mind and heart are feminine. If you, the reader, now turn away, muttering: "Oh, one