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DISCOVERING THE INNER YOU

Clothes don't make the woman, they enhance her. What is it that they enhance? Surely not just a body, it's more than that. It's a total philosophy of life. Values of what is important and what is merely sur- face. My observation is that most transvestites are merely grotesque characterizations of women in the mental and emotional side of their personality. Perhaps some of you are thinking that I'm suggesting a transexual philosophy.

I think that transvestites and transexuals are the same on this level but the transexuals are mixing up physical bodily changes with deeper expression of the feminine. The former doesn't necessarily lead to the latter. It all boils down to evaluation of your real feelings stripped away from the excitement of feminine fashions.

Some people are born with one gender area in which they will feel success. Others, the twilight people, have two areas that require atten- tion. The amount of attention to each area is different with each But these twilight people still have one personality.

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person.

There is one personality for each person. It is made up of all his ex- periences, aspirations, desires, values, and relationships to others. All the years of living experience plus all the things that he was born with. I don't think that he is two people one male and one female, α brother with a sister. What he does is to emphasize one area (masculine) over the other area (feminine) during his growing up. So he ends up with unrealized desires and dreams in one area (the feminine).

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