6) That a true transexual would be a person who was inadequate

and uncomfortable both as a male (sex) and as a man (gender); 7) that while there are people like this, the great majority of those who seek surgery do not qualify on this basis;

8) That this large majority is composed in some unknown propor- tion of three types of people, a) those who are drag queens and impersonators and who think that by surgery they will achieve a certain "super" status, b) those inhibited homosexuals whose inner sexual drives are towards their own sex but who cannot bring themselves to recognize this and to perform as such while they themselves remain males but who would feel relieved of those limitations were they to become "females", and c) those persons who are truly TVs and who are really seeking a full time gender expression and who mistakenly feel that the only way this can be achieved is through sex conversion;

9) that persons who have been practicing TVs and who begin to build themselves a fantasy about the wonders of being a woman should realize that what they are seeking is a gender expression ---one that can only be acquired by learning and experience- and should therefore set about arranging their lives so that they can achieve that goal (if that is really the most satisfactory goal in their lives) and give up ideas of sex conversion; and finally

10) that sex conversion surgery really of itself gives you only two possible benefits—first that you can now go to bed with a male (and if that is your deep subconscious goal you were not a TV to begin with but rather an inhibited homosexual), and second that if it came to a showdown legally you could in effect pull up your skirt and say "see" and could thus justify your existance as a woman. Surgery is a terrible price to pay in danger, pain, and money to achieve that small degree of security when with sufficient self acceptance, confidence and courage you can do it without surgical interference.

So before you get on the tobaggan at the top of the run, which starts with hormone administration (see my article in TVia No. 57 on hor- mones), please think long and seriously and pay some attention to the ideas of others not just to your own. Once you get on that tobaggan you can't get off, it goes faster and faster and will eventually arrive at the bottom. Staying with the psychological part of the analogy-as you slide further and further down the path your speed in the sense of determination, self justification, rationalization and logical "unreach- ableness" becomes greater and greater. Soon you arrive at a point of

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