Transvestia

regular chain of relationship and developement in which Transexualism is the "third stage of transves- tism". This professional "blessing" leads many a TV to think that he is or is becoming a transexual and he seeks means of growing breasts and getting transformation surgery.

Though I may be a voice crying in the wilderness, I do emphatically disagree with both of these points of view as I have written before. But if I don't think those are the destinations what is?

It seems to me that one of the big goals of human life is to come to understand your own self and to try to arrange things economically and socially so that you can find expression of as much of yourself as possible. When one does work that he enjoys, when he creates a piece of music, sculpture, painting, develops an idea, builds a bridge, invents a machine, discovers something new, etc, he is expressing some- thing of what he really IS. in a creative way. But there are other parts of ourselves that also need ex- pression if we are to be full, rounded human beings. When we live in a culture and an era where part of what we really are has to be denied and repressed we are the poorer for it because we get little or no chance to develop these aspects of our total self.

Since we have all been brought up in a culture that does place a premium on certain sets of traits and patterns and discourages and penalizes the expression of others while in the masculine, role. We feel very ill at ease and wrong when we try to express some af the traits which the culture currently assigns to the female. Ordinary men thus have two negative choices, don't express them or feel uncomfortable and guilty because you do. TVs on the other hand have unknowing- ly hit on the solution--express the traits, but do it

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