TRUE STORY

My Existential Commitment

My name is Don Dameron. and I receive just about all my regular mail under that name. VESTIA and the readers of it. however.

by Donna (28-D-1)

My femme name is Donna TV mail and some of my I am fairly new to TRANS- I am not new to TV'sm

Like most of us I have memories of TV'sm going back to my fifth and sixth year. All my 30 years have been

in and out of skirts. I went through most of my teen years thinking this was quite normal. After entering the U.S. Air Force, at the age of 18, I found out otherwise.

The jolt hit hard and started the usual guilt cycle. I fought TV, tooth and nail, until I developed a healthy psychosomatic disorder. This put me on the couch for a six month stretch of psychotherapy.

When I got off that couch I was under the impression that I was "cured". Thus started a four year period of rationalizing and sublimation. The TV was there but I wasn't letting it out.

In September of 1963 I made my existential decision. I went back to skirts and have, and in all likelihood, will stay in them. When I made this decision I knew full well that I would have to face the guilt and anxiety of being "different". Part of this could be handled in- ternally but I knew that not all could.

I started out cautiously and as time progressed I

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