with zest giving pleasure to those in our confidence. (Ed note: “Amen sister.") Once you can get this positive open attitude much of the guilt problem falls away and of course this is the reason that FPE is so good for us.

My next observation is that there are many people who can accept us as we are without thinking any less of us providing the subject is introduced gently and with a little courage and to the right sort of people. Why do the girls seem to be more tolerant than other men? Do they want to mentally castrate us? I think it's because they know the positive pleasure of femininity, the soft caressing clothes, the "setting up" compacting feel of a girdle, the proud poise of the breasts, the desire to look attractive and behave attractively giving pleasure to those who behold us. I feel that in active busy moments both sexes prefer the loose and easy clothes of the male but in our recreation, walking out, evenings out, parties, the sexes would prefer the flattering trappings of the female. Thus is Unisex (Unigender Ed.) born with both standing

to gain so much and lose nothing.

I have come a long way in my twenty-five odd years of indulgence and learned a lot about myself in the process but there is so much more to find out and it's all so exciting. Not just dressing and looking perfect as God and the chemist will allow; these are basic skills to any reputable TV. But all the other myriad activities of the little woman, dressmaking, home running, poise and deportment, speech, sense of what is beautiful and desirable. I feel I would "drop out" and become a flower child any day if only it didn't upset my patients!

What about the young crossdresser and children being told? I think we must accept that if someone is destined to be a TV nothing we can do will stop him and so simply help him in his aims and gently restrain him if he gets self-destructive. We can and must find a balance in our gender mixture. As for the children; I don't think they should be told until they're old enough to (a), understand what we're talking about and (b), only then if they're well balanced enough to take the fact that Daddy likes being a Mummy from time to time. The parents are the two inti- mate examples of the genders and confusion of the genders at an early age must be psychically unhealthy. Although we are male and masculine but wish sometimes to be feminine, we must be distinguishing quite clearly between the two otherwise how could we be desirous of making a transformation. This is a heritage we certainly cannot deny our off- spring.

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