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dresses, skirts, blouses, coats, etc, hang in a large closet beside my wife's clothing and my lingerie fills two large drawers of our dresses. 'We share our hats and purses as this gives us both a larger selection to choose from for any occasion. I enjoy wearing my wig while Viv combs and puts it up on rollers, then I assist assist her with the house work while it is drying. She then works it into a becoming style while I watch Marie in the mirror become a lovelier woman.

In the development of Marie, it was my wife who helped with walking, mannerisms, cosmetics, and jewelry. At the beginning she pointed out the tendency to over-exaggerate feminine mannerisms, wear too much and too heavy a make-up which gives a false look, and the wearing of too much jewelry. These things are not done by well dressed women and call undue attention to oneself.

My eight hour a day job, remodeling the house, and the usual chores of maintaining a home leaves little time for feminine expression except on week-ends. This is fur her complicated because of the dropping in un- expectedly of relatives and friends.

I decide when my son was sixteen that because he had been brought up with a good background of sexual education that I would tell him that I was a TV. This would have been impossible for me to do without the information that I had received from TVia and other articles published by Virginia. One afternoon about a

year and a half ago, I called him into the living room and told him there was something I wanted to discuss. I handed him the four page leaflet titled "A Brief Discussion of the Nature of Transvestism" that Virginia had sent me and asked him to read it which he did. Then I told him I was a TV and asked him for an honest opinion about the subject. His answer was, "Well, I don't ap- preciate it." I told him I didn't expect him to appre- ciate it but that it was a fact and a truth and I felt he should know. Further discussion followed and his accept- ance of this dual personality of his father has been an education in itself. At no time did he or has he shown that the father image that had been built up over the years has been destroyed, damaged, or even touched, but

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