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monetary value and it becomes a source of income.. to me that is a step down the moral scale and cannot possibly be a source of true happiness...My question: what happens when they grow old? Hmmmm?

Another gnawing doubt: this brand new girl re- turns to a world of GG's who can outclass her, outdo her and outgirl her in all departments of life. The competition that the TS finds in all GG's is to

almost overwhelming. They are girls without childhood, without a past as little girls, as teen- age girls, as adolescent girls. In other words they are girls who must face the world with the terrific handicap of a lack of those formative years in which the GG learns to be a woman, a wife, a lady. -I can well understand the exhilaration and joy that they must feel right after the operation. How those first few months must be full of wonder, adventure and de- light, but my suspicious nature leads me to conject- ure that that exhilaration must pale and that happi- ness must tend to dim when the full impact of the new reality and its projections towards the future begin to be assimilated by our synthetic girl. Very few of the TS's I know have learned to move and ges- ture with that suppleness that is exclusively female. You can still see the stiffness of their bodies on the dance floor, even walking. And a few of them are still fighting the eternal beard problem which does not go away with the hormones.

I have been terribly negative up to this point. I tend to see faults rather than accomplishments. But I maintain that one must be a super-realist when one is a TS, or simply a TV. More realistic than most human beings. And I am afraid that most TS's do not exhibit enough realism before they take the final step. They do not analyze with meticulous care all the facets of their problem. So much so that there is one TS that I know who had the oper- ation and today is earning a living as a man! She continues to dress in masculine attire because she found out that she could not stand the small income