I'm not in a position to divide that 80% into specific percentages but I can divide them into three specific classes and that is the important thing. The first class, and I daresay the largest, is composed of those persons who are really homosexuals. That is, those persons who have openly lived a homosexual life and are “drag queens". These persons have come to the conclusion that since they find drag an effective means of capturing male partners that they would be, so-to-speak, super effective queens if instead of having only a “back door" they were able to provide a "front door" for their sexual partners. This might appear logical until one stops to consider (and such people never do) that after the surgery their former gay boy friends are going to lose interest. After all the boy friend is a homosexual himself and likes males (drag queens or not). If he liked females (front doors and breasts) he would be straight and not gay to begin with. Now that his former “girl” friend (as a queen) has joined the "enemy" (females) as it were, she has disqualified her- self and the boy friend goes back into the gay bar to find some other male with whom he can relate. The new convertee therefore is a sort of outcast from the gay world and she has no choice but to turn to the straight world. She feels it necessary to "prove" her "femininity" which, as she uses the word, refers not to gender but sex, by having sexual en- counters with as many men as she can. This is not difficult, men being what they are, and thus she becomes an amateur or professional prosti- tute. Her chances of finding a decent straight guy who will love, marry and support her in the manner to which she would like to become accus- tomed are not great. In the first place she cannot provide him with children and in the second she was not raised as a female and as a girl, and has not been indoctrinated by her parents and the culture with the attitudes, abilities and expectations of a female girl and thus can not really fulfill his needs as a wife, even though she thinks she can and even if he knows nothing of her past. Obviously, therefore, sex change surgery is not reasonable nor justified for such persons—they do not fit the def- inition.

The second class are those persons who may never have had any or perhaps only a few homosexual experiences but who, on a conscious or sub-conscious level, are attracted to penises and the idea of being pene- trated but whose upbringing and moral code makes such contacts un- acceptable to them as long as they themselves are males. For such a per- son it follows logically that if he is disqualified as a male and becomes a pseudo female such contacts are now "all right" and morally acceptable. This type of person is not a true TS either but rather a thinly masked homosexual who hasn't got the courage to acknowledge and practice it openly and who utilizes the surgery as a means of morally justifying

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