yet who enjoy dressing and being feminine, not just for something to do at a drag-ball, but as a true, gender-type experience, the same as we do. And conversely there are trans-sexual individuals whose desire to be of the other sex is very strong, but they may not ever even dress as a woman, feeling that until they are a female, they can't be a woman. And for some of those who have had surgery, their interest in using their newly created female genitals, with a male as a female, is of a very low order. So we end up then with a number of different kinds of circum- stances which defy any simple kind of classification.

So now, what is the significance of all this to the readers of Trans- vestia? As I see it, many of our sisters, are concerned about homosexu- ality, certainly we all were at one time or another. I mean concerned in the sense of worrying about it. Perhaps the variations referred to above will serve to indicate that there is a very real gray area in which cate- gories just don't work. If one of you reading this falls into one of those gray areas, perhaps some of the illustrations discussed here will enable you to think your way out of it instead of allowing yourselves to be crucified with feelings of guilt and fear of being a homosexual be- cause society says so, and yet not feeling yourself to be one within your own mind. In short, if I were to digest this into a few words, I would say, that unless a person, a male person, purposely seeks out and desires to have a sexual experience with another male person who knows that the first is also a male, that individual is not a homosexual. One of the logical by-products of wearing feminine attire and being a woman in the eyes of other people in various social situations, is of necessity, some kinds of verbal and personal inter-relationships with men as well as with women. Furthermore, one aspect of femininity is to enjoy the approval and compliments to it by others— primarily men - I just can't feel that any FP who is able to and does get out into the world and finds herself the recipient of some masculine attention must shy away from it and get all covered with confusion and guilt and decide that she must not per- mit it lest this make her a homosexual. This kind of feeling is very com- mon and yet it is also very ridiculous, because for the reasons I have discussed already, homosexuality, by definition means just that—a sexual experience with somebody of the same sex!

The tendency that some individuals have, and I don't mean just FPs, but even psychiatrists, to extend the word homosexual to include all manner of relationships between male persons, is wrong in my opinion. Why don't they include the Boy Scouts, or a football team, or a camp- ing trip as homosexual experiences because they do include many other things that are equally innocuous. Such relationships are not homosex-

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