Transvestia

every 20 to 30 days when the only important thing in the world to them is wearing a dress and make-up,

a complete feminine outfit and admiring themselves in their mirror.

And now we come to Type 4, the class to which I feel I and all other Transvestites belong..the mas- culine assumption of the feminine role in its highest and most morally perfect respect. There are fewer members of this type than of any other category, as far as actual transformation of man into woman through the use of make-up and change of attire is concerned. But the spiritual numbers are many!! It's just that a woman's role is far too difficult and exacting for a man to play, unless he has, at least, the outward appearance of the feminine body. Sheer physical size and muscular development prevent many male 'girls' from assuming the feminine exist- ence they prefer. At heart all of us are women. Twenty four hours a day we are actually or mentally attired as a woman and occupied with feminine thoughts and pursuits. Nothing masculine is overly attractive to us. We (and this is probably the most character- istic of Type 4 femme-males) ache with a fierce desire to be women and are intensely envious and jealous whenever we see an attractive girl. Most people will believe that we are violently homosexual because of these desires. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although we all are mentally feminine and care only for a woman's way of life at the same time we realize that homosexual relations are terribly repugnant and, if not avoided, would only plummet us to the depths of Type 1, the deviates and sexual delinquents.

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Many years ago, before my marriage, I had a male friend. He was a Professor of Speech at a New York University, a brilliant and well educated man. I attended one of his classes and, one evening in the course of class study, he asked if he might come to my home to discuss a phase of the theme. Since I was extremely interested in this text I felt that much

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