RANSVESTIA

Editor's Note: There are those who take the position that they don't much care what caused their FPia or what it is all about, they just enjoy it. There are others who just don't take time to read anything but Fiction or True Stories in TVia. There are others who just can't be bothered about Virginia's theorizing, etc. Of course there are many who don't fall in any of these classes. But the following letter is reprinted here not as a pat on the back for me but in the hope that somebody else's en- dorsement of the ideas presented in the editorial in TVia No. 73 might induce some of those who passed it by entirely or who just skimmed over it to read it again. That would be a good thing. I don't just sit down and dream these articles up for something to do — God knows I have more than I can handle already. But I do write them for the purpose of sharing concepts that develop in me because of my rather special kind of involve- ment in the whole scene in the hope that some bits and pieces will mean something to you who read them and help you to construct a better fabric out of your own life. I am naturally very pleased that I managed to hit the point for Barbara and pleased that she has taken the trouble to tell me so.

Dear Virginia:

My purpose in writing to you this time is to comment on the content of your "Virgin Views" in TVia No. 73 — “The Masculine-Feminine Game."

I feel that in a very few words, following the quotation from the Roz- achs, you have captured the real essence of this whole transvestic ex- perience. As a matter of cat, it seems to me that you have reached a type of peak, as you have stated and summarized the totality of the causation and implementational aspects of transvestism clearly, concisely, and completely.

You are aware that I have been an active and keen observer of the whole scene for many years. We have corresponded, discussed and even disputed over the many years since TVia was first born. After all the running around into so many different avenues hoping to find satisfact- ory approaches to our mutual and related behaviour patterns it is might- ily refreshing to "come back home" to evident and acceptable basics.

I wish that a large part of the medical profession could be per- suaded to return to their basics of training as to the environmental caus-