On the scale of one to six that Dr. Benjamin got out some years ago, persons dressing full time but with too much sense to have the opera- tion rate five as TS not TV and that seems to me to be correct.

"Normal" persons would be surprised to know of the number of males on this continent alone living as females, many with good reasons. Most of us can remember boys in our school days of whom it was said "they ought to have been girls" and who did not have a happy life at school for that reason. Unfortunately too many still class TV's with HS and perverts.

What strikes me in dressing full time is that the special TV thrill of donning our wonderful clothes is lost. A woman gets no more thrill than a man from getting up morning after morning dressing about the same as before and going to work. Of course she can change much more than most men can. Certainly a woman gets a lot of pleasure we men miss if she finds a dress that exactly suits her and brings out her best features. But too many find that they cannot afford it, and so take what they find and too often regret it. Even if she does find what she wants, it is not at all the thrill that it is to a TV. So, it seems to me that in dressing the same and living the same year after year you are losing the greatest pleasure of TVism.

All my life I have had physical, social, family, and especially financial troubles, and have seldom been clear of them. Yet, the too few times I was able to dress for any length of time I shed my troubles with the male clothes. I was happy and felt different in every way, though I have little experience of the "girl within" theory. Even the Cinderella knowledge that I would have to change back when the clock struck did not affect me much. I don't know about Sheila's statement that three days dressing would send her up the wall, for I never had more than one day, but housekeeping probably would. What I have always wanted to do and possibly the next generation can do, would be to be able to dress when I felt like it, go out in public and be accepted by friends as a man who, for his own reasons, chooses to dress as a woman at times. In my own case, I'd possibly look bet- ter than as a male.

So it all comes down to what we now call "doing out own thing." But if you full time dressers will borrow a Bible, dust it off and look in the Book of Judges you will find that the mess Israel was in then was because "every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Very Sincerely, Marjorie

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