RANSVESTIA

1) It will all be done in confidence. All mailed questionnaires will be mailed by me and I will receive them back and forward them to him, they would not have any identification on them.

2) Those who would be willing to be interviewed would of course have to give Dr. Green the name and address so that arrangements could be made for the personal interview-this applies to those in the areas mentioned above. However, all information will be coded and kept in confidential files. Dr. Green, like Dr. Kinsey before him, has interviewed a great number of people on a variety of very personal subjects and is well aware of the importance of security and confi- dentiality so you need not be worried about this.

3) He would like to interview both the TV and the wife in regard to how dressing fits into family life in order to get some idea of where the child fits into the picture. Then he would like to interview the child (regardless of age) but would do so with a general questioning format that would not bring up the subject of the father's dressing at all (unless the child already knew about it and the parents were willing for it to be mentioned). The excuse for the personal interview with the child or a mailed questionnaire to him/her would be that they were conducting a survey of average American family life and that your family just happened to be among those selected. Since the child would be compared with similar age and sex children of non- TV fathers they would both be asked the same general questions. Since questions about dressing wouldn't make any sense to the child of a non-TV father they wouldn't be used for them and therefore would not be used on your kids either. Any unusual attitudes or variant patterns can be determined from psychological questions that have nothing to do with cross dressing so the fact that your child doesn't know now about your dressing won't be changed any by the questionnaire or interview.

So if you would be willing to cooperate on this study, please make a slip of paper or a 3 x 5 card with the following information on it and mail it to me.

1. I live in one of the target areas for personal interview and I would be willing to be interviewed by the researcher.

2. I do not live in a target area but will be willing to fill out a ques- tionnaire for the study.