Transvestism

by Bernt Bernhelm

ARTICLE

"EXPRESSEN" April 13, 1968

[Editor's Note: The following is a translation, kindly supplied by ERNA FD-J-1 FPE, of a long, two part article appearing in the large Swedish Newspaper "EXPRESSEN" on April 13th and 15th of this year. The interview was arranged and participated in by two of the leading girls of FPE-No. Europe. Since they used different names in the article I will not further identify them here, but they are two of our loyal members. They are to be congratulated on their courage and their efforts to spread knowledge of TVism in their country.]

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BENGT, 40 YEARS OLD, HAPPILY MARRIED, FATHER OF 4 CHILDREN, DRESSES HIMSELF NOW AND THEN AS A WOMAN AND CALLS HIMSELF EVA. "I FEEL THAT I HAVE TO DO IT," HE SAYS.

Our prejudices are greatest in the sexual field. The less you know about sexual deviations the more you condemn them or try to ridicule and despise them. This article is an attempt to inform readers about TVism, a compulsion neurosis that forces some men to put on women's dresses. Last year I criticized in "Expressen" the French "transvestic ballet" which appeared at Strand's restaurant, as an unsavoury way to make capital out of the tragic deviation that is called transsexualism.

Later I got a letter from a Swedish transvestite: "The purpose of our work is in an objective way to give information to society, transvestites and official persons in order to make them understanding, perhaps also to accept our harmless minority so

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