is not that he even feels uncomfortable inside himself if he tries to exhibit some of these traits while dressed in men's clothes.'

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"I think I see what you mean," Tom interrupted. "For instance, I've often been emotionally moved by some particularly touching scene in a movie and found tears forming in my eyes. I got embarrassed and tried to wink them away or wipe them away without being seen, like I had a speck in my eye. I guess I thought that other people would say I was a pantywaist if I was caught crying at a movie scene. I suppose if I was a transvestite and was wearing feminine things at the time, I would be in my feminine personality and crying at a sad scene would be perfectly natural and expected of a woman, so nobody would notice. Yes, I'm beginning to get it for other things too," he went on with real interest. "Like if a fellow felt that he'd like to dance around gracefully by him- self to some pretty waltz music or something he'd feel real stupid and out of place doing it as a man, but in a dress and heels he could be as graceful, dainty and rhythmical as he felt like and could really let go and enjoy himself. Seems as though going from a 'he' to a 'she' would open up a whole new world of experience and expression than an ordi- nary man would never have access to."

"Gee!" he interrupted his train of thought in embarrassment, "I feel sort of foolish and stupid for referring to them as 'perverts' and 'queens' when they aren't anything like that at all. Matter of fact, I feel kind of sorry for them having to go through life always afraid of the stigma of the accusation of homosexuality when they are not only not homosexual, but are actually giving expression to and enjoying a fuller expression of their total personality than the rest of us."

"Now you've got it," I told him. “As a matter of fact you picked exactly their words only you got them in the wrong order. They have a research and educational foundation which they call the Foundation for Per- sonality Expression. This Foundation is collecting statistics, histories, and working with research groups at several Universities. They send out information about the subject of transvestism in every way they can. I'll tell you this, I'm a believer in the work of this Foundation and my education of you in the last half hour from the point of calling trans- vestites 'perverts' to that of seeing this behavior as a Fuller Personality Expression, is a perfect example of what it is trying to do."

"I'm really glad that you dropped by, Tom, because explaining things to you has helped me see how I should write this article. It always helps to crystalize an idea to talk it out with somebody." I told him. "Here have some coffee and we can talk some more."

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