The Editor's Mailbag

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Dear Carol: As you've purchased Virginia Prince's books, I supose that somewhere within we are kindred spirits. It was through the pages of TRANSVESTIA that I became aware that there were others with similiar orientation. This, in itself, released me from the doubt and guilt I had previously known.

My transvestism is totally heterosexual. I've known, con- sciously, that I have been a Tv since age 5 even though that I never had a name for my feelings. At that time I was forcibly attired in girl's long stockings and sent off to primary school. Though I suffered from the ridicule from the other children, inwardly, secretly, I knew that evermore, I wanted to be so attired. Only, when would I be grown up so that I could wear a pink all-in-one foundation and seamed sheer rayon stockings, like my aunt did

By the time I was ten or eleven, I was adept at putting on my mother's sheer rayon stockings without getting a run in them. But, when would I be able to have my OWN heavy, pink Jac- quard Foundation garment, with six heavy pink hosiery suppor- ters? And so its been ever since. Although a confirmed crossdres- ser, I view the whole thing from the viewpoint that I would like to wear feminine things, openly, as a male possibly a throw- back to childhood! But perhaps there are a few others who think like this.

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I recall being a tourist in Japan in 1978. There was an ob- viously American young fellow, in his twenties, very well dressed, and my eyes nearly popped out for I am certain his ankles were adorned by Ward's sheer support nylons, suntan

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