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she understands me perfectly well, she says "I'm so happy I have two persone in you, a mother and a father also"- there is no problem between us and we are the best of friends. I have been employed in a medical field for years and am highly efficient and respected in my work as a woman so I do not consider myself a queer, generate and all the other vulgar terms used in describ- ing people of my nature. After my day at the office, I am happy to come home to my old dungarees, mocassins and a nice cigar. For a hobby, I love wood carving and oil painting, but to really satisfy the masculine side of my nature, I have bought a large piece of land 190 feet frontage by 570 feet deep and I am about half way throu- gh chopping down trees and clearing spaces for summer camps that I will build myself. When I go there, with my lumberjack's boats and a few good axes, I'm in hea- ven! I really feel like myself and it exercises those ex tra muscles not usually found in the so-called normal female now I certainly don't feel there is anything wrong with this behaviour and I do not run to the psych- iatrists for treatment because I don't feel there is any- thing to be treated. I have simply learned to accept myself the way I am and although I am lonely, I have the satisfaction of being honest with myself, and with my fellow men. We are definitely misunderstood but let us not fall into self pity, this is absolutely useless. We must face the situation and also find the partner that is equally honest.

My case is certainly quite clear to me, I am a mas- culine type of woman. I cannot stand frilly and fancy things on myself but I love those things on a man. I am a very sincere type of person and would be an ideal mate for a male TV. If it least once in a while a man would get dolled up for me with all the fancy under- things, perfume, negligee, etc, I'd be in seventh hea- ven honestly! Some day I will find that person, I feel confident that somewhere, perhaps in my own city, that doll of my dreams exists. In my heart, I know that I would be the aggressor, I would be possessive towards that "woman" maybe domineering, maybe I would expect my partner to dust knick-knacks on a shelf and little de- licate jobs like that but so what? There is no such a creature as a 100% man or woman I feel that if two persons can adjust to happiness together, can work to-

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