your self respect and take one

more step on the road to Thus case histories are

a guilt free self acceptance. not something to be guiltily fascinated" with, rather they are glimpses into the lives of other people and provide some ideas which help in developing insights. into your own inner life. So case histories too have their place and, in moderation, will continue to appear in these pages.

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A third difference in point of view has to do with pictures. TURNABOUT says that it will not "present endless arrays of pictures of transvestites so as to at- tract vicariously motivated readers (I think they mean variously not vicariously)". Pictures of TVs are of- ferdin TRANSVESTIA because this too is a part of finding oneself. To have one's picture appear right out in the open as it were is one of the means of stating to the world- and thus to oneself--that one is a TV. At the same time those who look at the pictures can compare notes and find that there are others who are tall, fat, old, masculine or what not the same as they themselves. Everyone cannot be a Bardot or a Monroe and the fact that others are not is a help to many in- hibited TVs to come out of their shells and express themselves. For this reason and not for "various mot- ivations" pictures will continue to appear in TRANS- VESTIA.

The prospectus of TURNABOUT goes to some trouble to emphasize that its sole activity will be publishing and that no organization will be formed through its ef- forts. This too is fine, but it is stated in such a way as to imply that the organization of FPE and the Foun- dation through the pages of TRANSVESTIA was somehow undesirable and to be disparaged. Everyone to his own opinion of course, but I would like to point out that TRANSVESTIA was, is, and will continue to be more than just a publication. A great deal of counselling has been done and an attempt from the beginning to HELP the TV in various ways whether advice to him or to his wife, by promoting friendship and self expres- sion or by providing material items that would be use- ful to him in the practice of TV. These non-publish- ing activities are precisely what has made the work load so great and which has justified a somewhat higher

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