the act. Needless to say this sort of person has probably never even had the degree of dressing experience that the drag queen has had. Neither this group nor the first one will have much real femininity prior to surgery regardless of how young and pretty they may be when dressed. Femininity is a feeling within oneself not just the visual impression given to others at a ball.

The third portion of the original 80% of non TS applicants are in reality misguided TVs. It really saddens me deeply the number of these people who have already "made the trip" or are already so set in their convictions that they are unreachable by logic or reason. Believe me this condition exists and some of you reading this are undoubtedly already in it. Such people remind me of the humorous sign sometimes seen on office walls, - "My mind is made up, don't confuse me with facts!" In this group, whether they have already had surgery or not, are persons who have in many cases been or are married and often fathers. This automatically disqualifies them from the definition given previously because if they have been able to have intercourse with a female it is obvious that the mechanisms leading to attraction, affection, erection and ejaculation are all in working order. This regardless of whether they have fathered children or not, though naturally paternity is prima facie and irrefutable evidence that they were sexually functional.

On the other hand these people are usually disqualified on the gender level too. To begin with they were enough of a "man" to attract a female sufficiently to permit the intercourse (married to not). Beyond that they generally have a history of having had the ambition to get and keep a job, earn a decent income and be effective enough as "one of the boys" to be above suspicion and accusation. Some of those whom I class as misguided TVs and who have had surgery were married, fathers, suc- cessful business men and were entirely the opposite of the definition already presented. Yet they went ahead and had the surgery. Of course they have no choice now but to make the best of it since it is an accom- plished fact and, of course, no one of them would admit that it had been a "mistake". How could they? To admit it to the outsider they would have to admit it to themselves first and this is next to impossible. Few people are capable of that degree of honesty, of candor, and of self understanding. Having argued their way up to and through surgery with wives, parents, bosses, relatives, friends, doctors, psychiatrists and every- body else that got in their way, and having sold themselves so strongly on surgery as what they REALLY wanted, is it reasonable that they would have the moral courage to admit even to themselves that the

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