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As most of you are aware, it has long been my contention that the medical profession and related interested sciences such as Psychology and Sociology have insufficient knowledge about the phenomenon of transvestism to draw any really valuable conclusions. Because I feel this to be the case I have composed two questionaires myself over the last 4 years and have cooperated with any interested professional people all in the interest of gathering enough statistics and infor- mation to shed some light on our common behaviour pattern. It has been my belief that with more infor- mation available doctors, council

mation available doctors, counselors, lawyers and others would be in a better position to help our kind when the occasion arose.

The questionaire of a year ago brought forth 265 responses and these were kindly correlated by a Sociology student at the University of California by means of the university computer. However, although this is probably more statistical information than has ever previously been gathered on the subject I don't believe that it is enough. Professional people and M.D.s in particularly are notoriously difficult to persuade of the validity of information gathered by anyone outside of their own discipline. Therefore an outsider such as myself has to provide more or less overwhelming evidence to get a hearing and to elicit belief in the results. Since this is so I am very anxious To this to be able to present the results of 500 cases.

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