cision rests on the answer to the following question: Will this individual fit into the community better and therefore happier as a male or female?"

Mrs Mary Amiess, chairman of the Women's Athletic Council, said, "I call for the doctors to supply us with the evidence so that we can ensure this does not happen again. It is obvious a more stringent medical examination is roquired. But we should have more solid evidence."

Amateur Athletic Association Secretary Jack Crump said, "An international panel should examine every girl beforo she competes in international meetings. At the moment, women athletes produco a certificate of sex. If this provos insufficient, the medical people must advise us."

An autobiography is kicking up some unusually critical interest in book circles those days and parts of the book will be of interest to LADDER readers. A Matter of Life and Death by Virginia Peterson, Now York, Antheneum, 1961. It is a brilliant book about and by a brilliant woman, writton in the form of a diatribe to her deceased, much loved and hated mother. There are variant and specifically Lesbian scenes treated with candor, taste and restraint.

So far, tho promiood Losbian movies mentioned from time to time in the last couple of years in THE LADDER have not boon forthcoming; although Blood and Roses has been released on a nationwide basis, the elements are so obsoured that very few people will got the implication. La Dolce Vita is worth the tired spine ono gets from three hours of sitting.

A screon project was banned by government film authorities in Spain after consors turned thumbs down on the submitted script of "Tan Lojos, Tan Cerca" (So Far, So Near), a modern version of Sappho of Lesbos which Argentine Director Luis Saslavsky was to have directed for Producer Juan Buhigas with Viconte Parra as star.

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