Petitioners that only want to change their name have to be 18 years of age or older; those that ask for the maximum solution must be 25 years of age.

All speakers agreed that the law as such cannot resolve all the problems of transsexuals (or transvestites). But it might help considerably to reduce the problems these persons en- counter at their place of employment or in the community and especially with their relations with public authorities. At this moment we do not know when the law will become effective but most feel that it is a most welcomed approach and reveals a very positive concern of modern legislators."

RITA (FG-1-B)

I VANT TO BE A CLONE!

Science writer, Isaac Asimov, sings about clones.

Actually, said Asimov, although he wrote the last few verses, the idea of his song belongs to a fellow writer, Randall Garrett, who handed him the first verse and the chorus while Asimov was giving a talk on cloning in California.

What can one sing about cloning? Garrett, to the tune of "Home On The Range" offered the following:

Oh, give me a clone

Of my own flesh and bone

With its 'Y' Chromosome changed to 'X';

And when it is grown,

Then my own little clone

Will be of the opposite sex.

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