TRUE STORY

"IT'S A NICE PLACE TO VISIT, BUT I DON'T WANT TO LIVE THERE"

Debbie Ohio

I'm sure that a lot of you are already saying “Oh No! Not another 'don't do it' article!" I would have said the same thing a couple of years ago. Fortunately however, my outlook has changed considerably since then. Why? I will get to that in a minute, but first a little background is

necessary.

I am 24 years old, about 6′ tall, weigh about 170 and have been a practicing T.V. for about 20 of those years. I have been a member of FPE for four years now, an active member of Deltal and have many T.V. friends throughout the Eastern half of the country. I am a practic- ing member of a highly technical profression and am now living near New York City.

About two years ago I started getting the feeling that I was more than a T.V. That my logical path was that of a T.S. At the time I was mar- ried to a girl that seemed to like my femme self as much as my male half, and I loved her very much! However, even this couldn't shake the grow- ing desire that I had to physically become as close to female as possible. Naturally I began to take hormones in ever increasing doses. Gradually my life became more feminine. My work suffered because it was neces- sary to remain cool and calm in the midst of crisis and disaster, which I could no longer do. Therefore, I quit and went to work at another job at a much lower salary.

That was o.k. however since preparing for the operation was the only important thing to me. My T.V. friends saw what was happening and tried to talk me out of it but to no avail. I was committed! I found a doctor who was willing to perform the surgery and I gradually built up to the maximum hormone dosage and underwent many hours of elec-

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