But if we can reach the doctors, lawyers, marriage counsellors, police officials and judges, we could help these TV's indirectly even though they might never hear of this magazine. Think back--those of you who read these lines and who may have had run-ins with parents, society or the law-- wouldn't you have fared better than if some of what we, that is all of us, read- ers and Editor combined, have developed in the last three years were in the hands of those sitting in judge- ment upon you? It is too late to help you in your par- ticular trials and tribulations, but it is not too late to help the thousands of others who will follow. This is the task; the clinical aspect is just one part of the solution so we shall continue to consider it when and as it appears valuable. The questionaire recently sent to you all is, of course, a part of this program statistics must be gained before it can be disseminated.

TURNABOUT indicated further that it is not inter- ested in case histories nor other types of what it calls "confessional literature". It says that this sort of writing will be left to "publications whose readers are guiltily fascinated with the prurient details of ward- robe cataloguing". Now, I do not take issue with this statement because TRANSVESTIA is such a publication, it is not. However, I make this quote as an opening into something else I believe warrants consideration. Today there exists a number of more advanced FPs (not advanced in dressing or going out but in self acceptance and perception) who would be interested in the intel- lectual approach which TURNABOUT considers itself to be about to present. It can therefore, be disdain- ful of case histories and those who say, "as I write this, I am dressed in..."etc. But wait! Three years ago there was not a sufficient body of more developed FPS or if there were, they were scattered across the country and unknown.

Then TRANSVESTIA came into being, brought them together, nurtured them, opened their doors and help- ed them achieve the degree of acceptance of themselves that is a prerequisite to becoming what might be term- ed an advanced" FP. It may appear presumptious and braggadocio to say the fore-going, but there is no

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