When you turn them on you don't hear the sweet feminine purr you expected to hear. Their gestures are still the same old stiff, masculine gestures. If they hunched their shoulders when they wore trousers, they still hunch their shoulders now that they wear skirts. If they walked with the average male gait, the walking rhythm is still there after sur- gery. Just look at them standing under a tree... legs spread wide apart. Watch them entering or leaving a car. See them eating at the table . . motions... gestures... habits acquired through a lifetime of masculine training persist in coming to the fore.

And then there is the voice. Ah! the voice! Did you ever stop to con- sider how differently women talk compared to men? It is not just a matter of developing a high voice. Phooey! There are a good many GG's with pretty deep voices... but you can always tell that they are GG's... just as one can tell that a man is a man even if his voice is rather girlish. Why? Because there is such a thing as inflection . . . that certain lilt that is the trade mark of a GG. The way a man asks a question is vastly different from the way a GG asks the same question. Just as her excla- mations are different . . . Her music is different from a man's orches- tration. She waltzes with her voice while the man can't go beyond a simple foxtrot. And the operation does not produce instant waltzing. You still have to learn it! Just as you have to learn the entire gamut of actions, gestures, etc. . . which tell a GG from a man.

If I had the power to pass laws I would insist in the creation of an Institute for Gender Training. No TS could be granted the operation until he graduated from this Institute. Here he would undergo a strict program of femme-training in which all the masculine habits acquired from childhood would be stamped out-obliterated—and an entire new set of habits would be acquired . . . the senior year would deal exclu- sively with the mind. the acquisition of new mental attitudes, out- look, viewpoints. The graduate would then, and only then, be entitled to the privilege of changing sex.

The present crop of TS is rather pitiful-with a few notable exceptions of course—a good many of them are in worse shape than a TV that's just graduating from panties and hose to a complete outfit, wig and make-up. To conclude—it seems to me that those who are desperately seking the operation are only putting the cart before the horse—or in automotive terms: they are shopping for new fenders when what they really need is a new engine.

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