RANSVESTIA

could not only see the green grass and trees through his blue glasses when he wanted to but he could see the daisies and the daffodils too when he wore his pink glasses.

He often wondered about his parents and the psychiatrist and why they had made such a big thing over the pink glasses. He now had an advantage over either other males or females because each of them was limited to that half of the total world that was visible to him or to her through their respective glasses while he had access to the whole world. Why shouldn't he experience and enjoy this total world once he had discovered it? Why should he be denied it just because other people couldn't understand it? He decided that that was their problem and their own limitation, but as for him he was going to extract just as much beauty, depth and pleasure from his whole world as he could. And he did, and lived happily ever after.

Now I hope that little story will appeal to your holistic and feeling right brain better than a logical explanation would to your left hemisphere. I hope now you can better appreciate what goes on when a boy or man puts on feminine things and that it is primarily a sociological matter. It is only a psychological matter for psychologists and psychiatrists because of their training by way of a medical model. Such a model assumes that there is an anatomical, physiological or psychological condition which can be taken as the proper state of the organism and that someone who varies from that state should be helped, by whatever modalities might be appropriate, to return to that proper or normal state.

In reality society has, with its customs and traditions-which may have had survival value long ago-deprived each of us of half of our total humanity. As long as we wear the uniform of one gender. Clothing, etc. or glasses in the story-we can only experience that half of the possible world that is appropriate to that gender. But when we change clothes-glasses-we can experience a whole new, previously unknown way of seeing and experiencing our world. Once a male has had the experience of wearing the feminine "uniform", and has therefore been temporarily admitted into this aspect of existance, he finds that what he can feel, experience and express is not something from outside, but something that is really his on a very fundemental level. Although he may experience tremendous guilt about doing it, the fascination of the experience is so strong that it pulls him back again and again in spite of repeated

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