Personal History

HISTORY

Prefer by Kathy 5-P-8 FPE

The first instance of "dressing", which I can recall positively, occured when I was approximately five years of age. At that time I was discovered by one of my older male cousins wearing a dress and a pair of high heels which belonged to my mother. I believe the incident was prompted by my having seen another, but younger cousin of mine, dressed in one of his sister's frocks. Although I was embarrassed I continued to dress, but with more caution.

What prompted me to "dress" throughout my pre-adolesent years would be difficult to describe except to say that I felt wonderful as I paraded before the mirror. When the girls in my grammer school began to wear lipstick I wanted to also, and when they began to wear nylons I dreamed that my mother would buy a pair for me. Needless to say she didn't. But if things were occasionally bad during those years they got worse when in 1954 at the age of eleven I discovered Christene Jorgenson through a Sunday supplement series.

I became more convinced that when I grew up I would live as a woman and for many years thereafter I toyed with the idea of an operation.

It seemed whenever I dressed during those years that my dreams were close to being answered, especially when I visited my cousins. When we were together we played a fashion game modeled after a current television show. I would always pretend that I wasn't interested but after a little prompting I joined eagerly for it not only gave me an opportunity to dress but to walk and talk as a woman.

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