Transvestia

she was offered as a girl. She makes twice as much She gets into dresses when she gets home (TV's take note!)

as a man.

at night and week-ends!

But let me try to be impartial. Perhaps act- ually being a girl (though a synthetic one) more than compensates for all of the shortcomings I've mention. Perhaps life -- difficult though it may be now -- was worse before. Perhaps the frantic craving that permeated their entire existence--now gone has been replaced by a certain peace and serenity which an outsider cannot properly evaluate. Perhaps the liberated personality finds in her newly found freedom a reward that more than makes up for the tortures of the transition. Perhaps...perhaps...

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But my biggest concern has to do with the TV who thinks he is a TS without actually being one. He has literally talked himself into thinking that he is a TS. The joys of dressing are so sweet that they tend to distort reality in the TV's mind. He finds himself surrounded by a scented mist which dims his vision, distorts his perspective, blocks his reasoning powers. He reads about TS's. He may even meet some of them. And he proceeds to create a gigantic day-dream, a monster mirage in which he thinks he'll find solution to all his TV problems. Usually such a TV has pushed his TVism too far. has allowed it to erode his job, his working capa- bilities, the equilibrium of his home life, his sense of values. He may have already lost the love of his wife--and in this state of depression, he actually invents a TS escape route. If I cease to be myself --he says-- If I actually die and become someone else in the form of a girl all my prob- lems will disappear. The new girl cannot possibly be held responsible for my failures. It is a way to start afresh...to transmigrate while still alive. This TV is not a TS. He has just found a deathless way to commit suicide.

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Of course I will not dispute the fact that there

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