RANSVESTIA

Dear Virginia:

The past two months have been the most informative times of my life after reading Transvestia #92, 94, and 95 and Understanding Cross Dressing.

I am 51 years old and think back to all the frustrations and guilt feelings I have put up with all those years. I just happened to run across the word transvestite in a magazine in 1967. Until then I thought I was the only one. It took me three years to tell my wife and I finally got to wear panties under my male pajamas.

I have found a few articles on transvestism and have progressed some in the last three years to wearing feminine attire to bed and in the last year to wearing panties under my male clothes. It has been slow progress but very rewarding as I know I am a better person since I have found the fact that I am a transvestite and may as well live with it.

Thank you very much, Virginia, for publishing the Transvestia magazine. I have had your address for over three years but finally got up enough courage to send in my subscription two months ago. I am glad I subscribed while you are still editor just to say I knew you. Thanks again.

As or a femme name, I never thought much about it until Transves- tia came along. I think I will use the first initial of my first name which I don't use—I always go by my middle name.

Love,

Veronica, AK-2-D

P.S. This is the first time I have signed my second self name. It feels good.

Dear Virginia,

I dearly enjoy Transvestia. It has helped me out of my closet and I look forward to the day my picture will appear with other members of an "Indianapolis chapter." I think the problems I face as a sister are

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