IMPORTANT PROJECT
Many of you have seen the book, Transexualism and Sex Reassign- ment, by Green and Money. Well, Dr. Richard Green, one of the authors, is a long time friend of mine. We recently met at the Conven- tion of the American Psychological Association in Toronto. He took me aside and told me about a project that he has in mind. He has done research and published a paper on the children of lesbian and sex reassigned parents and found that the attitudes and activities of the parents had no effects on the children-that they were just like other kids. He would now like to do a similar study of the children of transvestites.
He told me that homosexuals through the efforts of gay liberation. and transexuals through all the publicity of people like Jan Morris, Christine and Renee Richards have a fair degree of understanding and acceptance by the public but that such is not the case with transvestites. Of course this is something I've been saying for a long time-that we are at the bottom of the ladder-but it was nice to see that one of the authorities also recognized it. Therefore he said that a study of the children of TVs would be a step in calling the subject to public attention and of alleviating one of the most built in fears that wives have about it. Thus he would like to have my/our / your cooperation.
He is a post-doctoral research fellow and has a limited amount of funds to do such research and thus it has to be planned out caregully. He would like to interview some parents but can't have his man travelling all over the country seeking out willing parents. Thus we have settled on four areas that can be readily reached: 1) the Los Angeles-San Francisco Bay area, 2) the Chicago area, 3) Boston and 4) Washington D.C.-Baltimore area. He would then also like to survey others by mail, thus dividing up the research into actual interviews and mailed questionnaires. He asked me if I would give some publicity to the idea and ask those of you who would be willing to cooperate to let me know so that we could make some plans. So I solicit your help and would ask that you write to me saying if you would be willing. Before you make up your mind, here are the con- ditions:
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