exceptions, of course). The medical "experts" might well take another look at these cool-eyed ladies before they continue to prattle about those "suffering" from transvestism! Full of plans for an uncertain but surely delightful future, these girls and their successors yet to come are a living tribute to the planning and work which made it all possible.

DOUBLE OR NOTHING

Of course, it's lovely to be a girl Soft and sweet, and (Ihope) twenty three To purr with delight over every pearl And make myself lovely as I can be. Spend hours perfecting my best wig's curl- Thoughtless, and charming, selfish and FREE.

But the world of men, though far from clean With it's roar and clatter, and smoke and flame, shows another side of what joy can mean: To build with steel, in an endless game Or to fight- and master a screaming machine, Makes life as a lady seem all too tame.

Some praise the splendor of Coccinelle And the joys of hormones and surgery

But at forty-nine, will she look so well?

Or, there are those who'd make a "HE-MAN"of me

With a hairy chest, and a barn-yard smell

And a voice like a bull-ape fresh from a tree.

Reformers and tempters alike, beware

Before you peddle your tales to me

I've heard them all, and I wouldn't care

To be anything but a straight F.P.

I'm neither transexual nor square, And as I am I intend to be.

Sheila 30-B-2-FPE

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