Transvestia

Could I walk into my office, or show up at a bus- iness lunch wearing that perfume? You guess! So, in order to satisfy these urges I simply dress as a girl and lo and behold! I can wear perfume, and I can wear lilac from my earrings down to my shoes. (This is why it becomes important for a TV to improve his "girl image" so that he will be able to "pass" in front of other people, or at least to present a fairly pleasant aspect to friends who understand, tolerate and-why not-- approve.)

So much for Dr. Beigel's mistaken concept of what we mean when we sį eak of "the girl-within". But I am not finished yet. Dr. Beigel in his article states that a condition which is acquired can therefore be cured. I beg to disagree. We'11 look later into the connotation of "cure", but first, I'd like to prove to Dr. Beigel that there are many traits, urges, inclinations, or whatever you want to call them, that although they are acquired they cannot be erased, eliminated, or "cured". Let's take a little tree, Like all trees it starts to grow in a perfectly perpendicular position, nice and straight. But, during its formative years, the wind, sunlight, declivity in the soil, or some other environmental factor may start a slight deviation from the upright position. As the years go by, the trunk hardens, grows thick, and we are faced now by a giant whose trunk presents a 75 degree inclination to the West. The best position was acquired by the little sapling. it was not "born" with it. But I'm sure Dr. Beigel will agree that aside from actually breaking the trunk in two, there is absolutely nothing we can do to set it back to its original vertical position. the tee, though bent, is healthy and strong. Dr. Beigel would probably disagree and think of it as a "sick" tree. Why? Because it is a non-conformist

tree, a tree that is different.

Some may say what has a tree got to do with TVism being an acquired and according to

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