Transvestia agrees that TVs are not responsive to therapy. The Appendix is exclusively TS.

One of the most interesting sections is in Part I, where he discusses the normal development of the sense of maleness or femaleness. Though an avowed Freudian, he does not hesitate to point out the limits of Freud's insights into female psychology which were so serious he had wife-trouble of his own. This good, skeptical attitude is characteristic of most of the book, and I recommend it highly. BUT, I do hope you'll keep Chapter 18 away from your wife, and that he will soon meet some TV wives whose existence he doubts that do NOT divorce the TV when he becomes successful "either as a TV or in the world."

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BUT FOR THE GRACE, by R. A. Allen, M.S.R.R., publ by W. H. Allen, London, 149 pp. (1954).

This old book has just become available in the U. S. through World Wide Book Service, 251 Third Avenue, New York 10010, at $3.95 plus handling as their No. 425. Ann (30-D-1), the Pi Region Librarian, advises you to get their catalog No. 56 for order instructions, price 5 cents, as there is a mailing charge and a minimum.

The book is a perfect example of one of Dr. Stoller's exceptional cases, where a boy was raised as a girl due to a mistake at birth and delayed adolesence. He was only aware that he was a most un-girly girl, always at odds with his gender role and the world - but the reason was not even guessed at until he was 19 – and MARRIED! The husband, a decent soul, soon spotted the trouble but helped keep it from the "bride's" family to avoid shocking them, but it had to come out and did. Nevertheless, it was another 12 years before he got himself all straightened out; the legal difficulties were the least of it, as England accepts this sort of thing quite calmly. Social complications due to his being reluctant to discuss it with his parents led to his serving as a woman through World War II, and then the re-training took some time; but he never WANTED to stay a girl, and was living for the time he became a male in the eyes of the world. Despite all this, his first two years as a male were rough; he "thought too much like a woman," and had, in effect, a nervous breakdown that made him impossibly aggressive first and then withdrawn for two years, living as a recluse on his wife's earnings. But, at the end of his