Bill is a very nice guy but his sister Dorothy is one of those that just seems to fit her role perfectly. Quite a gal.

Tuesday evening was the seminar that I particularly came for featuring Dr. Benjamin of New York, Dr. Money of Johns Hopkins, Drs. Stoller and Green, my friends from UCLA, and Dr. Marks from England (the aversion therapy man). When they had all had their say and the question period was on I got up and had my say. I pointed out that because of Dr. Benjamin's pioneering work on transsexuals medical men all around were becoming more interested in helping such. But I pointed out that a great many persons ask for sex-change surgery who are really not TSs and who have talked and wished themselves into the idea and that just because someone asks for surgery does not make them a TS. I told them that I had grounds to know whereof I spoke because I was a transvestite myself. I went on to indicate that giving large doses of hormones to persons who really are not TSs but who have merely persuaded themselves into the surgery idea, was not a good idea. because the hormones not only knock out the male potency but psychologically they greatly lessen the drive, the get up and go that is necessary for a man to have to carry out his masculine role in society. At this meeting I was able to meet Dr. Randall of London with whom I have had some correspondence and who is one of those who has reported on a fair number of TVs. I shall look forward to having more time to visit with him in London next year.

Wednesday was devoted to the convention and the only item of consequence was that while I was in one of the ladies rooms on the exhibit floor of the convention a woman looked at me considerably and as I emerged from the booth she asked me, "Haven't I seen you on television?" I was knocked out by the question and also by the location in which it was asked and so did not answer yes or no but hedged by asking her where. She said Philadelphia and I started to say that I'd never been there when I remembered that the Allen Burke show was syndicated there. So I

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