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frontration. Seeing that there was a need for some sort of helping center she founded a Gender Identity Service in the Boston area. I met her one time in Boston when I was there for a TV show. I think I was able to implant some basic ideas that provided some of the foun- dation for her subsequent understanding.

This book will be read with much interest by any FP, and not only by them. It will provide an excellent "way in" to understanding and acceptance by wives, parents or friends. This is because there is no attempt to judge the behaviour pattern. Deborah Feinbloom is a sociologist and she went into the subject as a research project not with a personal involvement (though she did count my friend Helen in the book - as her personal friend). Thus the book is really a report on her observations and comments with the FPs she met at the meetings of the group. But being a sociologist she interprets and inte- grates her observations into the whole sociological picture. She also goes into the whole transexual area with sympathy and insight and clarifies a lot of that field for "outsiders" that really can't deal with such a thing.

I think it is proper to say that this is a "must" for cross-dressers. Don't just buy a copy for yourself, go one step further. Bug your local library to buy the book so there will be something there when the locked-up sister comes to the file for help and looks under "T."

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"Instead of his bonus,

Mr. Jones asked for my

permission to wear this (ahem) costume at work."