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Sex Char From Page 1 I just couldn't, not with this body. Each time a boy would say, "Blow me, queer" it became increasingly harder to say, "no, I'm not a queer"--because half the time I wanted to. Suddenly, four days before my six teenth birthday (1969), my father and mother left this life through the crash ing of our private plane. Their death was something I simply could not cope with. In utter desperation, I took an overdose of nerve pills in an attempt to kill myself. I woke up the following night with a terrible headache, but still very much alive--physically. I really wasn't alone. There was my older brother who I had never gotten along with. He was my absolute opposite. There were also my two gran dmothers, my chihauhau and an over weight girl whom I had known most of my life. We began seeing a lot of one another mainly because she was my only means of transportation. On several occasions, I would seek the haven of her home in escape of my brother. A few weeks later, I was called to Washington to work as a senate page for Strom Thurmond. After spending five weeks in Washington and having fallen in love with one boy much to his dismay, and been seduced by another, somewhat to my dismay, I returned home to the open arms of my overweight friend. From that moment until I left for col lege we were to see each other daily and for the last two months, live with one another day and night. She and I didn't get along very well. I refused to assume an aggresive role in our sexual endeavors. She tried to act like a wife while -I was trying to Jeans - Tops 1/2 OFF ALL MERCHANDISE MARCH 1-2-3 Inner Cit 2016 Green St. eChildho Formei do the same thing. She would cook and I would cook. We might have just have well have been two girls living together, with occasional homosexual activities. In Columbia, I met a girl from New Jersey. At 1irst our relationship was warped with me trying, pathetically, to behave as a male. I had become frus trated as she had, and I started drink ing frequently and using various drugs in an attempt to escape from reality. [ tried committing suicide twice and then came to the realization that the >nly one I was fooling was me, if even that. I was a woman, and I had to become one completely as soon as pos sible. I explained the situation to her and she accepted me as a girl, uncondi tionally. Since then we have had a won lerful friendship. She would go with me to the counselor's office as I explained my situation to him. Then to my psychiatrist, as I explained to him. Then to the bus station at five every Tuesday morning as I boarded the bus to see another doctor in Char leston. And most recently, she met me, along with her boyfriend, at the Colum ia airport, as I stopped over on my vay to Johns Hopkins to explain my situation to a doctor there. I continue to meet with my Charles on doctor weekly and I continue to live n my natural gender (female) as I have ince leaving the dormitory life at the eginning of May (1971). I continue to ake my daily 2.5 milligrams of estrogen, illegal though it may be. I iave no prescription. I feel like a homosexual when I'm vith a girl and trying to behave like i boy. I feel totally inadequate with a boy because my body is so drastically leformed. - Blazers - Bel $ALE y Gladrags At 5 Pts. (Across from I od, School Expej Student To Una 'I tried committing s came to the realization fooling was me, if ever and I had to become o as oossible.' 1 grew up a little girl in a little boy's body and, if I have my way, this cruel and unusual punishment is about to come to an end. My male name exists only as discarded label for this anatomy in which I, Julie, am forced to dwell." Note: These have been edited Cooper Discount Offered Student. The management of Carolina Coliseum announced today that arrangements have been made to offer a discounted ticket price to the Alice Cooper Concert, March 24th, 8:00 p.m. The discount is $1.00 off the reg ular price of $6.00, $5.00 and $4.00 and is open to all University of South Carolina students and teir dates. Pick-up dates for these tickets are -February 28 thru March 5 at 5:00 p.m. Tickets may be purchased only at the Student Union offices in Russell House. ts GA\ The Gamecock is publish ing the fall and spring semt and exam periods. Change of address formi should be sent to The Gam Subscription rate is $3 pe from the student activity fu Offices of The Gamecock on the university campus. and 777-3888, advertising. "':R i V.V A . \t <.":"i,' Popular actor James Ca "The America. Cancer wants to wipe out cancer lifetime. And we can mak pen...all of us...lf eacd gives generously to th urns) Cnasnde. iences Convince !ergo Operation uicide twice and then that the only one 1 was i that. I was a woman, ne comoletely as soon Julie excerpts of Julie autobiography as she prepared and presented it to her psychiatrist some time ago to convince him that she was indeed transexual. In the next issue, she tells of other events in her childhood and tells steps she has undertaken to become a complete women before the end of 1973. The Gamecock is looking for reporters, preferably with experi ence in news writing, in political science, English, history, sociology, psychology and business. For information call Patrick Tyler at 777-8178. 4ECOCK ed twice weekly on Monday and Thursday dur sters with the exception of university holidays , subscriptions requests and other mail items ecock, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S. C., 29208. r semester. The Gamecock received $38,000 od entitling full-time students to a subscription. are rooms 317, 318 and-319 in Russell House Telephones are 777-8178 and 777-4249, news, Second class postage paid at Columbia, S. C. an says, / -o Sociey Carol Burnett, rollicking come In your dienne whose TV show delights e It hap- miNlIons, wants everyone, every of us where, to joIn the American AS Cancer Society's Crusade to wipe out cancer. She's holdIng the "Sword of Hope," emblem of the