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of the feminine and one who feels this way would be termed a FEMIPHILE. This can be shortened to "FP" just as well as trans- vestite can become "TV". Now, as many of us have found out, in ●xplaining our feelings to someone unacquainted with the pattern it is more easily gotten across to them when we call ourselves "amateur female impersonators". Yet this is a rather long title in the first place, and more or less classes us with the imper- sonators of night club type who not only are homosexual (in most cases) but are known to be by the public. In the second place, it is rather inaccurate because we are not impersonating a female, this is an operation calling for a sex experience. It is not the sex wo are imitating, it is the gender--the quality of expression, the kind of living, the kind of personality that we associate with a lady, not just a female human, that we are adopting. We are personifying femininity, not femaleness. Thus the words "femme- personifier" would be descriptive enough but not very convenient, so the next modification that comes to mind is "femmepersonator"-- one who becomes a feminine person or expresses femininity. This word is easy to say, easy to write, does not refer only to what ones DOES (as transvestite does) but to what the individual is accomplishing, thereby implying the motive behind the action. Moreover, of those who know the word transvestite many already associate it with homosexual queens since it is used that way frequently in the popular press. Femmepersonator, being a newly minted word has no implications except what we wish to give to it. It too, can be shortened to "FP".

"FP" in a symbol or pin would occasionally have to be ex- plained to people who need not be told all about the dressing be- haviour. For such person the initials stand for "Full Personality Expression, which is good enough for them and is at the same time a true statement of the aims of what has up to now been termed a TV. So, from here on, I suggest that we begin to train ourselves to refer to ourselves as "FPs" and not TVs, though that expression will doubtless die hard and creep in occasionally. (I think I may safely take some credit for starting that abbreviation in the first place, at least here on the West Coast, many years ago before the first ill-stared "Transvestia" appeared for its short life of 2 issues, therefore I feel that I have an added right to pronounce a death sentence. Naturally, the name of the magazine will not be