has ever come up with. Mostly because it is "for real”—right from inside her. It's not intellectual, it's not teaching, it's not criticism—just Susanna.

I must say more power to her. While I don't want to sound superior by saying, "I did it first❞—I do want to welcome her to that understanding and inner contentment that she experienced. I sincerely hope that her plans will materialize for I know what lies before her and I say, "wel- come to the club'.. "The Club" is one that as yet doesn't have many mem- bers, it's members are "PGs" in contrast to GGs. This stands for either "permanent girls", or "post graduates” as you prefer.

Furthermore I must specifically call your attention to her comment about the accusation of crossing the transsexual line-"Phooey! I don't want sex, I want femininity". This distinction is one I've tried to make to readers for years and I welcome her help in emphasizing it. There are so many misguided persons who feel that all their dreams are to be fulfilled with a surgeon's knife. One has to grow into a feeling of REALLY being Susanna or Virginia or whoever and the knife is of no help at all in doing

So.

I have only one other comment. Both Susanna and myself, altho we sing the praises of the permanent state, didn't get there except as the result of years of effort as a man in building the necessary economic base and planning it. Moreover we have both done a good and rela- tively complete job in the masculine world-establishing our "broth- ers" as effective and likeable human beings too. So I think Susanna as well as myself would not want our pleasure in our own situation to serve as a lure or encouragement for others to attempt to achieve this condition prematurely. That is, before they have laid the necessary groundwork economically, socially and psychologically-until they have completely experienced their masculine potential. With both one can be a more complete human being, but jumping into femininity without the masculine experience preceeding it is leaving the pan for the fire. Moreover, it is the very contrast that makes the feminine ex- perience so satisfying. I would hate to have missed that.

Almost all TVs have been known to think or to say, “I wish I'd been born a girl." I used to say it too. But would you believe, (I hope you will) that today I do not feel that way. I may get myself read out of the TV movement but I can honestly say that I'm glad that I was born and raised a boy, that I've experienced life as a man, husband and father and that without these experiences stored away in my computer I would have no background of contrasting experience with which to judge my present happy state.

So aim for it if you wish, but learn to swim before you jump in the

water.

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