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wards the realization of their ambition, are thoughtful and considerate towards each other, aren't these things more important than the useless struggle of trying to an- alyse which is more male than female? If a person, through medical research found a cure for cancer, wouldn't we grab that cure with eager hands and forget about that person's sex? There is a great task to be done towards our brothers and sisters, great things to be accomplished, there is more knowledge to be searched, more education to be acquired. Let us get down to business and first of all understand ourselves in order to be able to help others become better human beings!

Best of luck with your wonderful magazine.

Sincerely, Gisele

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is our first letter from a female TV. We are especially glad to welcome Gisele-Tobi to our world. There are many more like her anyone have any ideas as to how to find them?

Dear Virginia:

COHO

How does one start a history like this? I've read dozens of case histories on TVs, but I find it very diffi- cult to start this one.

I've been a, more or less, practicing transvestite since I was 12 years old. I'm now 34 and very happily married for the last 10 years, to an understanding wife.

No doubt a psychiatrist would have no trouble pin- ning down the reasons for my particular case. I am the product of a broken home. I never knew my father and was raised pari atlly by my grandparents and partially in various foster homes in the Alberta City of. . . . I'm not trying to elicit sympathy for my upbringing, because as I look back on it I was never mistreated nor did I ever feel at least consciously that I had been "cast off by a cruel world".

I was always small and thin for my age and must ad- mit not a particularly masculine type chile I don't be- lieve I was effeminate, but I preferred the companion-

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