or Femme Personation if you will, would not properly be listed as Sex- Deviations or Sex- Variations. While it sounds a little awkward it would be more proper to re- fer to them as Gender deviations or even better "alter- gender" or "contra- gender" expressions. Failure to make this distinction on the part of psychological and psychia- tric professions has brought a great deal of guilt, shame, fear and misery into the lives of a great many persons who have been made to feel that by definition they were immoral, perverted, deviates, homosexuals etc., when they were not.

The human male is in a cultural cage although most of them don't know it. A cage may be defined as any area separated from or designated as different from some other contiguous area by any type of barrier. Barriers in the physical sense can be a wire fence, water moat, a sheer drop, etc., but all barriers are not physical, some are pyschological. Thus, there is a barrier between the cul- turally permissible behaviour of men and women. When a group of animals is put behind a barrier there are some in the group that immediately want out--want to get to and experience what lies on the other side of the barr- ier. A majority simply don't care that there is a barrier there as long as they are fed, watered and have a place to sleep and exercise. But among those that are challenged by existence of the barrier there will be a few who will persist until they learn to cross it. When they have discovered how, they cross it at will and re- turn to their own area when ready.

People are much like animals in many ways including this one. There is a barrier between the sexes and the male is the one enclosed in the smaller area which gets smaller every day. Women have fought the existence of this barrier for a long time and they have pushed it back considerably. Moreover, every foot they have gained, the male has lost. Why? Because the males, in their superior smugness, have liked to think that they occupied the open territory and that the barrier enclosed the females. Have you watched the monkeys, in a big cage at the zoo? Groups of people watching monkeys, and groups of monkeys watching the people! Have you ever considered which group was in the cage? Cages are not necessarily defined as the smallest of two areas and barriers do not necessarily keep something IN. Thus the people are just as properly caged out of the 78.