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Male). I am overwhelmed at how your analysis expresses and clarifies my experience, and offers an extraordinary new freedom for my girl- self to emerge. With trepidation I shared all the literature with my wife (of 11⁄2 years, my second after four children in my first marriage). To my amazement and enormous gratification she is now sharing in my excitement about my emergence. Perhaps some time in the future I can write you about my experience, because writing is something I enjoy. But I am still suppressed, awkward, and inhibited, although very excited, and my experience is only just beginning. I have never even met another girl like myself in all my 35 years (my brother is 46)!

My wife (bless her!) insists that I immediately achieve a good breast simulation. I need your advice. I would like to make the simulation as realistic as possible. Should I get regular inserts (M4) or mastectomy inserts. In addition to my check in U.S. funds, I also enclose my application for the Tri Sigma Sorority.

Thank you ever so much! Thank you!

Love,

Giselle-Canada

Dear Virginia:

You are one of the most refreshing people that I have spoken to in a long time. Your sorority and its ideals are second in importance, for me, only to my wife and music. Your response to my telephone call flooded me with a continuing inspiration and confidence.

There have been periods when my gender seemed to present insoluble dilemmas. Yet, through my depressions glimmers a per- petual optimism, about life and living. Somewhere there exists an opportunity for all of us to fulfill our needs and ambitions when we understand them.

But understanding is difficult to attain, especially of transgender-

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