Transvestia AMERICAN EXPRESS CHECKS: These can be bought by your true self but for your sister, take the application form have her to sign, make them give you the checks in blank as your sister is ill at the moment, etc.

CREDIT CARDS: To get a credit card also requires background information that your femmeself cannot supply but a card can be issued for her if you, her brother, guarantees it. I have several gas company credit cards in Virginia's name as well as American Express and Diners Club cards. All were obtained by having Virginia fill them out but then I as my real self with my own real credit as the background, guaran- teed the payment. This guarantee method can also be used to establish a bank account. The bank never has to see your sister, you just take the papers home for her to sign. After you have had an account this way for 6 months or a year your branch manager will prob- ably be willing to give you a courtesy card for your sister which is next best to a driver's license as an identification.

SOCIAL SECURITY CARD: One of these can be gotten in your femmename by simply obtaining a form and filling it out. Although it is not supposed to be used for identification, it does no harm to have this in the card section of your wallet when you have to establish yourself.

POLICE AND LAWS: If you are brave enough, go into your local Police station and tell them that you are in- terested in knowing their attitude toward femme dressing by a non-homosexual person. If it is flatly illegal you are dead, but if it is a matter of interpretation it does no harm to be on the table with them. Take or several of my pamphlets along to give them and discuss it with them. When you leave ask for the Officer's card so that you can remember whom you talked with. Having been straightforward with them and es- tablishing a beachhead you will be better off should the time arise when you are picked up.

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