VIRGIN IEWS by VIRGINIA

TRANSEXUALITY REVISITED

It has been a long time since I wrote anything on this subject and we have picked up a lot of new readers in the meantime. Since the subject is an ever popular one in the minds of a lot of FPs, I feel that some discussion is in order.

It has been my observation from talking in the past with a con- siderable number of "pre-op transexuals" that once they have given themselves that designation it is virtually impossible to reach them with any sort of information, logic, or anything else. But there is always the period before a person puts himself in that category and it is at this stage that there is some hope of getting other points of view into his head. Thus, since a fair number of present readers of TVia will, in due course, get that idea firmly fixed in their self concept, I am hoping that perhaps I may say something that will give some one of you second thoughts and reconsiderations about the subject.

It isn't as though I write about something I know nothing of. I went through the same fantasy trip myself about 20 years ago. When Christine Jorgenson hit the papers my heart hit the top of my mouth. I was so excited and enamoured of the idea that I could hardly contain myself. After all those years of skulking around keeping anyone from finding out about my "terrible habit" of wearing girls clothes, maybe I could find the same escape that Christine did. How I envied her, how she could go forth in the world in all her glory wearing what she wanted when she wanted and nobody could stop her. Wow! What a fantastic idea. If I had had the $5,000 necessary I am sure I would have booked passage on the next boat to Denmark. But at that time I was just getting my business off the ground and living on mighty little over the rent and car payment. My chances of making Denmark

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