company. This is not a satisfactory solution. We must go further and give him some rational reason for his feelings and beyond that we must make him face them in such a way that they become commonplace to him and not something to try to hide even from himself. If, in effect, he meets his femininity at every turn he is going to have to learn to accept it and deal with it.

Women don't have to do anything like this. They start as baby girls and grow to adult women whether they like it or not. They don't have to learn to accept their femininity (tho they may have to learn to accept their masculinity). Thus there is no sense in comparing this "femme" business to the lives of women. In speaking of a "sorority" or "femmedressing" etc. we are creating an atmosphere or enviroment in which the acceptance of the feminine side of oneself not only becomes desireable and possible but almost necessary since we are being reminded of it at every turn.

In addition to this reason, we have among cross dressers many individuals who cross dress for erotic, fetishistic, masochistic, or other reasons even less ob- vious, and who do not subscribe to nor feel the reality of the double personality concept. It is to be expected that they would have no appreciation for the feminine envirome nt that I am referring to. For them the whole bit stops with the dressing--the clothes. They are and will remain males in female's garb. They don't feel, act, or want to be feminine. To such persons the fre- quent emphasis of the feminine idea will not only be boring but will appear to be ridiculous--thus their com- plaints. But it is not for these persons that this concept has been developed.

For those Vs of the FP type the doing of feminine things, using feminine words, expressing feminine ideas and feminine forms of speech can help to gradually wear down the load of guilt and shame which he bears by the simple attrition of repetition. Gradually, after using these words and ideas so much he finds himself recog- nizing his own femme self and accepting her. When this occurs we have won the battle for a guilt free soul. This is after all the task that TRANSVESTIA started out to

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