RANSVESTIA

gery are reasonably well adjusted is not by itself an argument for surgery. When the change is an established fact you learn to live with it and they simply learn to live with their new gender. But they could have done that without surgery at all. I conclude with the hope that some of these words will fall on fertile ground and make somebody take another thought about this "deathless suicide”.

I CAN'T GO ON FOREVER!

Virginia

Yes, that's true, not only can I not go on forever from the point of view that everybody has to die sometime, but there is the question do I even want to try to go on till then. The answer is I don't! Why?

1) I've been publishing TVia for 13 years.

2) I've been involved as founder, president and now as operator of FPE for 10 years.

3) I've given dozens upon dozens of lectures, appearances, talks, etc. on the subject of cross dressing. I gave up notes long ago, it's all in my head and I'm getting kind of tired of saying the same thing over and over.

4) I am now 60 years old and not getting any younger.

5) I have a new life of my own that I want to lead which is constantly frustrated by the necessity of getting TVia out, of publishing stories, of writing letters, of keeping FPE going, of giving lectures and appearances

etc.

6) I'd love to have the experience of reading a few books, watching a few TV programs (the kind on the tube) of working in my garden or just lying on my patio in the sun without having to feel that I "ought" to be answering correspondence, or I "should" be editing stuff for the next issue or writing its editorial. I'm really tired of being driven by the re- quirements of operations that I have myself set up.

7) I'm really fed up with having my motives questioned, being ac- cused of being a Dictator, or being narrow-minded and undemocratic, of being a "TV Pundit" (that's supposed to mean a 'know it all'), of being run down in other publications and by other groups which haven't begun to accomplish what I have done for this field in 13 years.

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