"Dear Editor"

Dear Virginia:

I discovered your existence about three months ago when, without looking for it, I picked up a copy of Deborah Feinbloom's book, Transvestites and Transexuals, which you reviewed in TVia #89. Independently of this, I was asking another FP whom I met less than a month ago if there were any such things as hip pads, and I was recommended to try Chevalier. Well, I wrote to Chevalier, you replied, and all of a sudden the world has come into flower-after all these years! I am 63 years old!

To have burst out of a cocoon made of steel wool is your unique achievement; and this gorgeous butterfly you brought out with you, which we call transvestism, should not complain that the world at large has observed its emergence with fascination, astonishment, and awe; for we FPs are in touch with the Grand, whilst our critical ob- servers are habituated to the humdrum.

It is certain that the dichotomy of gender is and always has been the grand inhibitor of social progress as distinct from the scientific. It is to be remarked that all the progress of which the world is so proud has to do with mankind's manipulation of matter of its-mankind's- own ends through science; whilst there has been zero noticeable progress in the field of art, which has to do with man's communica- tion with the human spirit.

The heterosexual transvestite, properly defined, is concerned with the obliteration of genderal dichotomy by integrating the two genders through a process of synthesis. In this concern the interests of the human spirit are paramount. Let them that complain about us

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