Monday I gave a seminar to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington and as they have a Gender Identity Clinic there I tried to make the FP point of view clear since they are mostly concerned with TSs.

Tuesday morning at 8:15 I was on a local rock and roll radio station for interviews between records and commercials. It went over better than had been anticipated and before the program was over there were four calls waiting for me from students who heard the program on the way to class and wanted me to talk to their classes. One was a high school so I ruled that out. One was at an impossible time so two girls came down to the studio and we did a tape interview right then and there. The other two were from Seattle Community College and we set up the time as 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. the next day. That night I did a TV show on KTVW Tacoma that went over very well. That was on a Tuesday night and the following Saturday when I was already back in L.A. I got a long distance call from one of the girls telling me that they were playing it over again - twice in five days · that's some sort of record I guess.

Thursday morning I went to Seattle Community College to do the 11 a.m. class in sociology. It went over very well and afterward the professor was thanking me and said, “Gee, I wish you could talk to my other class." I asked when it was and he said, "right now!” I said, “Well, get me a glass of water and here we go again." At the end of that session it was 1 p.m. and time for the Psych class so we went up- stairs. Since they had already covered HS, TV (FP) and TS the pre- ceeding week I could dispense with the definitions and we really got into things. We had a happening, too. I was telling them how, as Virginia, I had been able to skip hand in hand with the little daughter of one of my friends down in Disneyland and to do so in front of lots of other people. By way of illustrating I just skipped around in a little circle in front of the class and on returning to the podium I stopped short and said, “Now I challenge any man in this class to come up and do what I just did." Would you believe it, one of the fellows did it. I just gave him a great big hug right in front of the class and told him it was marvelous, wonderful. The whole class clapped. It was wonderful in that a young man could be free enough to be himself in front of his peers without fear of ridicule or accusation. I'm sure Charles couldn't have done it in his day and I doubt that any of you readers over 30 could either. It is such a good sign that the younger people are not tied up in so many behavior knots as we were. It was beautiful. Both the

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