something better it is at least a new word which can be defined to suit its purpose. Thought it sounds like IM- personator, the IM-is missing. Thus a Femme Personator is one who personates," that is, makes a person out of and brings life to, his feminine self. This cannot be done by a male garbed in the usual male attire: his inhibitions against expressing anything gentle, graceful or pretty in his ordinary role are too strong. To give life to his inner urgings he must of necessity bring his body into apparent conformity, from this point of view of appearance, with those persons who society permits to express grace, beauty and gentility. Thus the trans- sexual and the transvestite both attempt to remove the incongruity between their exterior appearance and their inner feeling, but one does so on the physical-anatomical level and the other on the psycho-social level.

It is worthwhile to point out here that the use of the word "femininity in the title of this paper is only a conde- scension to current cultural concepts. For, as indicated earlier, most of what we term femininity and masculinity is not biologically related to sex. When we speak of "femininity," therefore, we refer only to various patterns, action and traits that are denied to men. The word is, in effect, defined by its use for anything that does not come within the current social limits of the appropriate be- haviour or interest of the male. Obviously, anything defined on the principle of exclusion has to be arbitrary and artificial. Thus, in reality, masculinity and femin- inity, coming as they do from Latin roots meaning manly and womanly, should either be replaced by two terms which do not have a sexual implication or should be confined to those characters, patterns and activities which do have a direct biological connection with sex. To continue to use them as we all do merely perpetuates a bit of semantic confusion into other fields of thought and tends to obscure clear understanding.

By recognizing the at sex is an anatomical and physio- logical affair, that gender is psycho-social in nature and that they have only a small area of overlap where there is a direct and necessary relationship, we are able to study the latter independently. One direct re- sults of such a new semantic position would be that forms of human behaviour that are not sex-related but are gender-related, as is the case with true transvestism, 77.