Dear Editor'

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Dear Virginia,

LETTERS

May I introduce myself by saying that I am a member of the British Beaumont Society, as from October 1969, and was appointed Chairman of the Representatives Committee last June. I am writing to you be- cause I was delighted to hear from Sylvia last week that you had re- printed my first contribution to the B. Bulletin-'First Impressions'-in TVia. I have not yet seen that issue, but hope to shortly, and I feel greatly honored.

I have been able to see a number of copies of your excellent maga- zine, and please do not blush if I congratulate you on the exceptional leadership you have given to the TV world and the clarity and origi- nality of your views. A particularly timely example is your long article on "Change of Sex or Gender” in the Dec. 1969 issue where you warn the high intensity transexual against the dangers of sex change surgery. In a world where money can buy almost anything, the increasing ease with which this mutilation can be obtained is frightening. Not that I do not sympathize with those that succumb. There are probably few of us who at some time, having found the pressures so unbearable, would not have trodden the irreversible track if circumstances had permitted it. I did indeed begin a letter to you on this subject some weeks ago but somehow it dried up.

After over 50 years of secret FPia to suddenly enter the world of the Beaumont Society is an astounding experience. People of our age per- haps all reached early manhood believing ourselves to be unique and then through the modern press realized that this was not so. Neverthe- less the extent and variety of the problem is not brought home until one begins to meet other FPs face to face and see that there are those who's pain is so great that one can, and does, weep for them. I have never felt

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