RANSVESTIA

catching up with you. Now Susanna (who used to write a column for TVia) and I and after us a lot of others have for years used the term "the Girl Within." She is the same one, the girl locked up in the “dun- geons of our psyches." This lead to the concept of the dual personality about which much has been written in the past. It wasn't always under- stood, however, as I often get letters from readers saying that they don't have a sense of two personalities and presume that either they are very different from the rest or that the point of view involved in the expres- sion is wrong. Neither is correct. The problem is simply that they do not understand the matter clearly — and that may go for you too, gentle reader, so stay with me and lets see where this all gets us. Such people are thinking of the dual personalities in too literal a sense -- kind of like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde or the Three Faces of Eve. The personality is there but it is rather like an as yet unborn baby in the womb its there but it isn't tangible, visible and functional yet. Give it birth and it be- comes all three but it becomes so in a very primitive and undeveloped condition and the events of its next several years shape the baby into a child with its own patterns of behavior and its own ways of functioning which we now refer to as having a personality of its own.

Well, so it is with the FP (Femmiphile or Femme Personator — one who gives life to the feminine within him formerly referred to as a TV). Each of you, and every other man has a "girl within." The difference between we FPs and the rest is that we have discovered that girl sitting in the dungeons of our mind. Circumstances are such that some of us can give her a lot of "life" elapsed time as a person among people and her potential personality then develops into an obvious and indisputable one. Others are unable to provide her those opportunities and her per- sonality remains a potential one like the oak tree within the acorn.

Skeptics among you, and those who make a habit of disagreeing with whatever Virginia comes up with (and there are quite a few), will ask how come I can assert with such assurance that everybody has this girl within thing? It is really rather obvious when you analyze it. To begin with, all males are born as baby males - and that is all. They are not born as boys because that is a gender thing and they have to learn it. Their learning begins almost from the moment of birth since it has been shown that mothers handle male babies differently than they do female babies. So from that minute on they are trained - you were trained sometimes

directly sometimes indirectly, sometimes openly and sometimes subtly to be a boy. But think a minute when there are two sides to most every situation, the masculine and the feminine, the young boy has to learn not only which patterns are adequately masculine but he also has to