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Transvestia

As do many TVs, I find the experience most exhili- rating--not for the deception involved--but for the idea that each time I do it, it becomes easier for me--and more common place in the scheme of things.

Is this over-rationalization?

I wonder, perhaps

it is.

At any rate, I feel the story is worth re-telling be- cause it may assist others. Because it is not fiction, it displays what I feel is a remarkably casual attitude to- ward our situation and it may give others the courage to come a little further out into the open. But to someone obsessed with the drive of transvestism, the entrance in- to the world of femininity (brief and inconsequential though it may be) is a long-to-be- remembered thrill.

Tecla

38-M-2

Dear Virginia:

Following is a very brief history of my dressing experiences. Note the same pattern as others have had. Fortunately I have a sister about my age and every chance I had to stay home alone for an evening, I spent trying on her clothing. I don't remember trying on my mother's as she was a rather large woman. To try to analyze now why I did this, I can only figure that I wanted to see how I looked as a girl. During my college years I don't reme- mber any experience in dressing, but if there were it no doubt continued along the same lines as my high school adventures

The war came (World War 2) and I went. A little over three years was cut out of my life which I spent in the Aleutian Islands. No chance for dressing. a lot of opportunity but no clothing available. I never thought of mail order but there were no cataloges available any- way. I wasn't pushing very hard either.

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