YOUR

LETTERS

The following letters are just a few of the many letters that your busy Editor receives in her office each week.

Dear Carol: Two or three years ago Roanoke City was going to pass a law against crossdress- ing. I got on the phone with the Commonwealth attorney for at least half an hour and also sent him a copy of Understanding Crossdressing. He had thought that all crossdressers were "gay," and the result was the attorney

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sent the draft of the proposed law to be voted on. Last year the newspaper started running stories about "queens" in hopes of getting the law put through. I called the attorney again and was told that he had no interest in putting the law into effect providing the news- papers didn't cause too much trouble. I then called the news- paper involved and set them straight as well as sending them a copy of Understanding Cross- dressing and our Press Release. It looks like the city and news- paper have wised up. RONA

Dear Carol: I am a hetero crossdresser in my early 40's. Four years ago I married a won- derful girl. I told her before we married that I was crossdressing but that it was behind me. I really thought that I could stop but one day, about five months later, she caught me dressed. I begged her forgiveness and swore

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that I would not do it again; I tried, but before long I was crossdressing again. I did it in secret but the guilt was killing me and the marriage. She didn't catch me again until about a year later. She didn't say a word but went to church and talked to one of the officials who hap- pened to be one of my best friends. I was in real trouble. How could I find some clever way to escape. How could I go on? How could I face my friends - I thought that I would be put out of church. After much agony of thought, my common sense and a strong will to ride out the storm, no matter what, kept me from doing anything foolish.

It was not as bad as I had thought. After much discussion with the church counselor I said I would see a sex therapist to get "cured." I didn't go to see this therapist until two months later when I got caught again. I'm glad that I went. Now I know there is no "cure." On my second visit my wife went with me and now she knows what it's all about. Life is a lot better now and my wife is supportive and even helps me look my best as a girl. She says that if I'm going to do it, I have to look better if she is going to go out with me. I wish this

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had happened 20 years earlier when I was younger. VANESSA

Dear Carol: As I sit here, com- pletely dressed and in seventh heaven, it is an absolute wonder to me that I ever desired to stop dressing in the first place. I can't begin to explain the mysterious hold that dressing as a woman has on me nor why I love femi- ninity so much. I only know that for me, from now on, I must express this side of my per- sonality. Without Dacyl, Keith doesn't function well at all. There are few things in life that match the pleasure which is mine when I am dressed and I do not intend to rob myself of the ex- perience again; DACYL

This issue of Transvestia has four more pages than usual. I made up my mind to give our readers the remaining portion of the long story, First Lady. The story is long and I should have carried it over to another issue but because of the indefinite dates of publication of this peri- odical, I thought it only fair to finish up the story.