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you, while at the same time to give you and your mother a lecture on your behavior in an effort to nip this development in the bud. On further consideration I thought it only fair to see you in person and then based on our collective reactions and in this I include your Aunt Jennifer and your cousin Steve, we could if necessary have worked out other arrangements. I thought you would be so embar- rassed in having to dress and undress before your cousin that you would as a result have felt very foolish and uncomfortable, and that this would have been the first step in breaking down your resolve to continue your assumed role of a girl during your stay here. To our surprise, your appearance and mannerisms on arrival were so con- vincingly feminine that we were not only taken aback, but to some extent disarmed. Then your good natured acceptance of having to share Steve's room, which we knew must have been a crushing dissapointment, followed by unhesitatingly appearing before Steve in all forms of undress, which again we recognize was far from easy for you, made us reappraise the whole situation. Steve has been very frank with us and has related many of your conversations, not with any thought of carrying tales, but so that we could better understand you and why you were behaving as you have been doing. The fact that you two boys so quickly reached an understanding, and Steve's acceptance of your wish to be regarded as a girl, greatly influenced us in also accepting you as you wanted us to do. We have loved having you, as always, and no less this time as Jenny, and to a surprising extent have been able to ignore the fact that you are actually a boy dressed in girl's clothes."

"Unfortunately, there is more to this cross dressing than I believe you have given thought. In the first place I have come to the con- clusion that you are a natural born tranvestite, a person who enjoys dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex, and if this situation had not developed now, it would in all probability have done so sooner or later. On the other hand, you must recognize that you are actually male, and I assume you have no wish to be transformed anatomically into a female. Few transvestites actually go that far in their fantasies. You will want to continue to dress as it is obvious that you have come to love your feminine clothes, but you will also have to realize that this, as with all indulgences, will have to be kept within bounds. You may not know this, and I am sure your mother also was in ignorance of the fact, but in many states it is illegal for a man to dress publicly in women's clothes. I am certain that with you and your friend there has not been too much risk as you are both juveniles, also I must

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