Transvestia

my friends about five months ago.

The interim period

has been a most interesting one. There was embarassment and discomfort when word first starting getting around. I found it hard to look at some of my male friends but this passed. Now there is little embarassment in front of anyone.

I am now able to talk about the time last spring when I had my purse snatched. This occured one evening while I was walking from my car to one of the local movie houses. I had checked the laws concerning female impersonation last January and had been told that there was no law that I or anyone else could be arrested under as long as we weren't caught powdering our noses in the ladies room.

Knowing this came in nicely. I raised such a fuss when the purse was snatched that the cops were called and were on the scene in a very short time. An officer asked me if I was the woman whose purse had been snat- ched. I decided to play it straight. I told him I was a male and proceeded to give a description of the snatcher: They were caught in a matter of minutes and we all went down to the station together.

I filed a report on the snatching and made the usual statements that go along with this sort of thing. The only comments made to me was the asking if I dressed like a woman often. I replied yes to this question and told them I was doing it on a bet that evening. They did not press the issue any farther. When I asked them If I was to be booked they evaded the question. One of the officers did say that if this got into the paper it would make quite a story. I agreed. I walked out of the station with my purse and my dignity intact.

This story made an interesting impression on my friends. The people I work with, and for that matter live with seem to be undisturbed by my pretence. I am apparently well liked. I'm not sure they would accept me if I tried wearing skirts to work but at least I'm not, as I thought and I suspect many of you think, rejected and scorned by those about me.

There are many advantages to being so straight for-