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many possibilities in her future - but somehow Wendy seems to lack the over-riding determination of the TSS I have known. This puts her in the group I call "quasi-TS", who talk a lot about an operation but always have some pressing reason not to do it "yet". Whether these people are TS or TV, I do not know; but they certainly do NOT "want what they want"!

That little word "want" is a bomb. Perhaps a TV with full developed duality is the person most aware of this, but even the ordinary non-TV is always. being pulled in opposing directions by conflicting desires. "Want" can mean anything from a vague de- sire for a million dollars to the raging compulsion that makes an addict break windows with his bare hands to get the drug he "wants". In my life, the desire to be a girl is balanced by a stronger desire to remain a man. The effect is periodic flashes of femininity which result in dressing - just as I will succumb to the calls of hunger and thirst no matter how much I "want" to finish whatever else I am doing. For that matter, if the author wanted to be Wendy, he wanted something else too - because his portrait on the book jacket shows him with a BEARD!!

On the whole, this book will interest the TV for the look it provides into an alien world; the TS for the obvious reasons, and the quasi-TS as a source of the self-torment they seem to thrive on.

WHO ASSIGNS

THE ACCESSORIES, ANYWAY?

A girl for you, a boy for me;

Just the

way it ought to be!

But sure enough, the dimpled cheek, Golden curls, petite physique

And long-lashed eyes are lavished on Not little Jennifer, but John.

ETHEL JACOBSON

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