Glen or Glenda?

by

Ed Wood

BELA: Man's constant groping of things unknown, drawing from the endless reaches 
of time, brings to light many startling things. Startling because they seem 
new...sudden...but most are not new to the signs of the ages. A life...is begun! 
People...all going somewhere. All with their own thoughts, their own ideas. All 
with their own personalities. One is wrong because he does right...one is right 
because he does wrong. Pull the strings! Dance to that, which one is created 
for. (sigh) A new day is begun. A new life is begun. A life...is ended. 

[cut to room] 

POLICEMAN: Let me see that note. 

VOICE: The records will tell the story. I was put in jail recently. Why? Because 
I, a man, was caught one the street wearing women's clothing. This was my fourth 
arrest for the same act. In life I must continue wearing them, therefore it 
would only be a matter of time before my next arrest. This is the only way. Let 
my body rest in death forever in the things I cannot wear in life. 

[cut to doctor's office] 

SECRETARY: Inspector Warren is here to see you Dr. Alton. 

ALTON: Just show him in, Ms. Stevens. [Warren enters] Inspector. 

WARREN: Doctor. 

ALTON: Sit down. 

WARREN: Thank you. You're a very busy man, Dr. Alton, I know. I appreciate this 
time you're giving me. 

ALTON: Business or pleasure, Inspector? 

WARREN: In a way, business. From policeman to inspector. Twenty years of it. I 
guess I've seen everything there is for a policeman to see. Yet I wonder if we 
ever stop learning. Learning about which we see, trying to learn more about an 
ounce of prevention. I'm a man who thrives on learning. We only have one life to 
live. If we throw that one away, what is there left? Doctor, I'm hoping to learn 
something from you. And with that knowledge maybe save some human from a fate 
which I just witnessed a few days ago. A four-time loser. This type of case 
comes to me, as well as yourself, many times during the course of one month. 

ALTON: The suicide? 

WARREN: The suicide. 

ALTON: Most of us have our idiosyncracies. 

WARREN: This fellow's was quite pronounced. 

ALTON: Yes, but I wonder if it rated the death warrent it received. I don't 
think so. 

WARREN: That's why I'm here today, Doctor. What do we do about it? 

ALTON: I've always heard you to be a hard-hearted policeman, Inspector. 

WARREN: Isn't that what's thought of most policemen? The laws are written, the 
policeman is hired to see that those laws are enforced. We have a job to do, as 
in most jobs there is always someone who doesn't want that job to done. In most 
factories today, the employer has put up suggestion boxes. Even the employer 
needs advice once in a while. I think in the case we're referring to, I need 
advice. Maybe it shouldn't have happened as it did. Perhaps the next time we can 
prevent it. 

ALTON: Let's get our stories straight. You're referring to the suicide of the 
transvestite? 

WARREN: If that's the word you men of medical science use for a man who wears 
women's clothing, yes. 

ALTON: Yes, in cold, technical language, that's the word. As unfriendly and as 
vicious as it may sound. However in actuality it's not an unfriendly word, not 
is it vicious when you know the people to whom it pertains. 

WARREN: Would a sex operation do these people any good? I understand you were 
quite prominent in a case that hit the headlines a few weeks ago. 

ALTON: Some cases yes, others no. 

WARREN: Well the papers sure had a field day with that one. 

ALTON: Strange as it may seem, even though it was a "field day" as you so aptly 
put it, it's not a new story. Sex changes have been performed many times. Those 
whose sex can be changed, they're the easy ones. But what of those who so 
desperately want to be of the opposite sex, yet can't change their sex, such as 
was the case with Patrick, Patricia, the suicide. 

WARREN: I'd like to understand this, Doctor, as best you can tell me. 

ALTON: You can only fully understand the sex change by taking two entirely 
differen't cases. Two men with exactly the same background from childhood to 
manhood, and onto their own decisions and destinations. 

WARREN: I'd like to hear the story to the fullest. 

ALTON: Only the infinity of the depths of a man's mind can really tell the 
story. 

BELA: Dr. Alton. A young man who is...speaks the words of the all-wise. No one 
can really tell the story. Mistakes are made. But there is no mistaking the 
thoughts in a man's mind. The story...is begun... 

NARR.: One might say, there but for the grace of God go I. Why is a modern world 
shocked by this headline? Why? Once, not so very long ago, people were saying: 

WOMAN: Airplanes...ha! Why it's against the Creator's will. If the Creator 
wanted us to fly, he'd have given us wings. 

NARR.: But we fly. Maybe some of you remember an even sillier remark: 

MAN: Ottymobeels? Ah...they scare the hosses. If'n the Creator hadda meant for 
us to roll around the countryside, we'd have been born with wheels. 

NARR.: Silly? Certainly. We were not born with wings, we were not born with 
wheels. But in the modern world of today it's an accepted fact that we must have 
them. So we have corrected that which nature has not given us. Strangely enough, 
nature has given us all these things, we just had to learn how to put nature's 
elements together for our use, that's all. Yet the world is shocked by a sex 
change. 

WOMAN: If the Creator had wanted us to fly, he'd have given us wings. MAN: If 
the Creator hadda meant us to roll around the countryside, we'd have been born 
with wheels. 

YOUNG WOMAN: If the Creator had meant us to be boys, we certainly would have 
been born boys. 

YOUNG MAN: If the Creator had meant us to be girls, we certainly would have been 
born girls. 

NARR.: Are we sure? Nature makes mistakes, it's proven everyday. This person is 
a transvestite. A man who is more comfortable wearing women's clothing. The term 
transvestite is the name given by medical science to those persons who wear the 
clothing of the opposite sex. The title of this can only be labelled Behind 
Locked Doors. Give this man satin undies, a dress, a sweater and a skirt, or 
even the lounging outfit he has on, and he's the happiest individual in the 
world. He can work better, think better, he can play better, and he can be more 
of a credit to his community and his government because he is happy. These 
things are his comfort. But why the wig and makeup? He dares to enter the street 
dressed in the clothes he so much desires to wear. But only if he really appears 
female. The long hair, the makeup, the clothing, the actual contours of a girl. 
Most transvestites do not want to change their life, their bodies, many of them 
simply want to change the clothing they wear to that as worn by the opposite 
sex. Glen is engaged to be married to Barbara, a lovely intelligent girl. 

BARBARA: Those fingernails have got to go. 

GLEN: You know I didn't realise they were as long as they are. 

BARBARA: My goodness, they're almost as long as mine. Maybe even prettier. We'll 
have to paint them some time, just for the fun of it. 

GLEN: We'll trim them... 

BARBARA: That's for sure! 

GLEN: You know Honey, you've invited me to dinner so many times in the last 
couple of months, it's almost like we're married already. 

BARBARA: I wish we were, Darling. It's been a long year. 

GLEN: For both of us. 

BARBARA: But now, my studies are through, college is concluded, and I'm free at 
last! 

GLEN: Free...for the time being. 

BARBARA: Huh? Oh...how about joining me for an after-dinner drink? 

GLEN: The living room? 

BARBARA: Uh huh. 

NARR.: Modern man is a hard-working human. Throughout the day his mind and his 
muscles are busy at building the modern world and its business administration. 
His clothing is rough, coarse, starched, according to the specifications of his 
accepted job. At home, what does man have to look forward to for his body 
comfort? The things provided for his home. A wool or flannel robe, his feet 
encased in the same thick, tight-fitting leather that his shoes are made 
of...these are the things provided for his home comfort. It doesn't look so 
comfortable, does it? And get the hat - or better still get the receeding 
hairline. Men's hats are so tight they cut off the blood flow to the head, thus 
cutting off the growth of hair. Seven out of ten men wear a hat, so the 
advertisements say. Seven out of ten men are bald. But what about the ladies? 
Yes, modern woman is a hard-working individual also. But when modern woman's day 
of work is done, that which is designed for her comfort IS comfort. Hats that 
give no obstruction to the bloodflow, hats that do not crush the hair. 
Interesting thought, isn't it? Just for comparison, let's go native. Back to the 
animal instinct. There in the lesser civilized part of the world, it's the male 
who adorns himself with the fancy objects, such as paints, frills, and masks. 
The true instinct. The animal instinct. Bird and animal life. Is it not so that 
it's the male who is the fancy one? Could it be that the male was meant to 
attract the attention of the female? What's so wrong about that? Where is the 
animal instinct in modern civilization? Female has the fluff and the finery, as 
specified by those who design and sell. Little Miss Female, you should feel 
quite proud of the situation. You of course realise it's predominantly men who 
design your clothes, your jewelry, your makeup, your hair styling, your perfume. 
But life, even thought it's changes are slow, moves on. There's no law against 
wearing such apparel on the street, as long as it can be distinguished that man 
is man and woman is woman. But, what is it that would happen were this 
individual to appear on the street? You're doing it now - laughing. Yet, it's 
not a situation to be laughed at. Thus, the strange case of Glen, who was 
Glenda, one and the same person. Not half man-half woman, but nevertheless, man 
and woman in the same body, even though by all outward appearances Glen is fully 
and completely a man. 

GLEN: My sister let me borrow her dress. 

FATHER: You want to borrow your sister's dress?! What for? 

GLEN: I want to wear it the Halloween Party. 

FATHER: There are names for boys who go around wearing girls' clothes. 

MOTHER: Oh, don't be silly Darling. You go ahead and wear your sister's dress, 
Glen. You always did look much better as a girl than you do as a man. 

NARR.: Glen did wear the dress to the Halloween party. He even took first prize. 
Then one day it wasn't Halloween any longer. 

FRIEND: I wish I had the sight into such things to be able to advise you, 
Sheila. Maybe...maybe if you took the problem to a doctor. 

SHIELA: It's Glen that needs the doctor. But, but when things like this go wrong 
with someone so close, and in your own family, it's so hard to believe. 

FRIEND: It's not really hard to believe, it's just hard for you to accept! 

SHIELA: Well of course it's hard for me to accept! Suppose I were to come home 
with Roy or one of my other boyfriends [!!] some night, and find Glen like I did 
last night. 

FRIEND: Yeah...that would be hard to explain. 

SHIELA: That's the understatement of the year. Just how does one go introducing 
your friends to your brother when Brother's wearing you best sweater, your 
skirt, and makeup to boot?! 

NARR.: Glen is not a homosexual. Glen is a transvestite, but he is not a 
homosexual. transvestism is the term given by medical science to those persons 
who desperately wish to wear the clothing of the opposite sex, yet whose sex 
life in all instances remains quite normal. Would you be surprised to know that 
this rough, tough individual is wearing pink, satin undies under his rough 
exterior clothing? He is. Then there is your friend the milkman who...who knows 
how to find comfort at home. 

WOMAN: I can't stand it any longer. He wears all my clothes...nothing is sacred 
to him. Even my briefs! 

WOMAN: He has every one of my sweaters stretched out of shape. Of course he has 
always replaced them, but then they didn't last long either! 

WOMAN: But your Honour, ruffles on his shirts and shorts...really! 

NARR.: Glen and all the hundreds of thousands of other Glens across the nation 
face quite a problem. Glen is engaged to be married to Barbara, a lovely 
intelligent girl. The problem? Glenda, Glen's other self. The girl that he 
himself is, his other individual personality. 

BARBARA: You look tired tonight Glen. 

GLEN: Yeah, I guess I am. It's been a long day. 

BARBARA: Have you seen the paper yet? 

GLEN: No, why? 

BARBARA: It's headline. A man had his sex changed to a woman. Isn't that a 
strange case? I wonder how some people's mind works. 

GLEN: Well some people aren't happy the way they are. 

BARBARA: I suppose so, but to change one's sex, that's a pretty drastic step to 
take. 

GLEN: If it's the only way, I'm for it. 

BARBARA: I wonder what I would do in a case like that, if I were in the mental 
turmoil that person went through. Or if I suddenly realised that something was 
mentally wrong with you. Ooh...it's hard to visualize. Here we are, two 
perfectly normal people, about to married and lead a normal life together. And 
there's this poor fellow who never could have been happy if it wasn't for modern 
medical science. Our fourth term in psychology explains a lot of the facts, but 
I'm afraid the end of study is only the beginning of reality. 

NARR.: Glen's problem is a deep one, but he must tell her...soon...She's begun 
to notice things: his nails, his eyes when he looks into a lady's store window, 
so many of the little things that are so hard to hide. Soon she will realise. 
Then there was the time Barbara was wearing the sweater Glen had always wanted 
to feel on his own body. It was becoming an obsession to him. He must have it. 

BARBARA: What's the matter Darling? 

GLEN: Oh, I guess I was daydreaming.

BARBARA: Something seems to be troubling you. Why don't you tell me? 

GLEN: It's nothing. 

BARBARA: Once, long ago, just after we started going steady together, we 
promised we'd never lie to each other. Are we gonna start now, just because 
we're engaged to be married? 

GLEN: It's just that, oh Barbara it's nothing that a little sleep won't cure, 
it's been a long day. 

BARBARA: It's more than that. Come on, tell me Darling. Who knows, maybe I can 
help. 

GLEN: That's just it you could. 

BARBARA: Then something is troubling you. 

GLEN: Yes. 

BARBARA: Do I have a right to know? 

GLEN: You have a right to know. But let's just say for the moment, I'm afraid to 
tell you. I'm afraid I'd lose you. 

BARBARA: Nothing could be as bad as all that. I love you, and you love me, and 
nothing in the world can change that. 

GLEN: I hope not. I really hope not. 

BARBARA: Glen, is it another woman? 

BELA: Pull the string! Pull the string! A mistake is made. A story must be told. 

NARR.: Always the same. He's not had the nerve to tell her. But he must soon 
come to some conclusion or forget the marriage. Should he tell Barbara of his 
Glenda now, before the wedding, or hit her between the eyes with it after, when 
it might be too late for either of them. The world is a strange place to live 
in. All those cars, all going someplace, all carrying humans, which are carrying 
out their lives. The world is shocked by a person who changed his sex. Glenda is 
shocked also, but by another reason: Someone like her had the nerve to do 
something factual about their situation. There are so many problems for Glen and 
all the other Glens. Perhaps the fear of discovery of the underthings they wear 
beneath their regular outer clothing, or that which they wear during their 
nightly visit to Morpheus, God of Sleep. 

CASHIER: Thank you very much and I'm sure she's going to enjoy it very much. If 
you want to return it be sure that you bring the sales slip. Thank you. [enter 
Glen] Can I help you Sir? 

GLEN: Yeah. Let me see a nightie. 

CASHIER: What size? 

GLEN: Twelve. 

CASHIER: The colour, the material? 

GLEN: Black, very sheer. 

CASHIER: Just a minute. Well we have this here. If you like that, something like 
this? That lace? 

GLEN: Yeah... 

NARR.: Perhaps he admires the material too long. 

CASHIER: You can see how sheer the material really is. 

GLEN: Yes. 

CASHIER: You see it's all pure nylon and only $21.95! And of course it will 
never snag. 

NARR.: But, Glen and Glenda, and all the Glens and Glendas, have an even bigger 
problem. The homosexual, it is true, does adopt the clothing or the makeup of a 
woman to lure the members of his own sex. But this is not so for the 
transvestite. The transvestite is not interested in those of their own sex. The 
clothing is not worn to attract the attention of their own sex, but to eliminate 
themselves from being a member of that sex. 

JACK: Hi Joe. 

JOE: Hiya Jack. 

JACK: Monday again. 

JOE: You know I think Monday's about the worst day of the week. A perfectly 
wonderful weekend then... 

JACK: Back to the sweatshops. 

JOE: Too bad we was born to work. Say, did you read about the guy who had his 
sex changed to a girl. Say's he was perfectly normal, too! 

JACK: How could a guy be normal and go and do a thing like that to hisself? 

JOE: It must take a lot of guts to pull a stunt like that. 

JACK: That's a problem I don't ever intend to face. 

JOE: Maybe it's a problem we should all face. 

JACK: I don't getcha. 

JOE: Just think of the unhappy life. The miserable time this world of ours must 
have given that poor guy. 

JACK: I still don't getcha. 

JOE: Now here's a guy who wanted to be a girl. Suppose'n there had been no way 
to change his sex. 

JACK: You sound as if you were really head up on this thing. 
JOE: I guess I am. 

JACK: Do you realise what would happen if every man in the country who wanted to 
wear women's clothes or felt like a woman went to the doctors and wanted a sex 
change? 

JOE: Of course, that's why I say perhaps society should be a little bit more 
leninent, but maybe society should try to understand them as human beings. 
Another day done...thank goodness. See you tomorrow, Jack. 

VOICE: Yeah, so long Joe. Until tomorrow. 

JOHNNY: Hi Glen! 

GLEN: Hi Johnny. 

JOHNNY: Come on in. I'm headed right for the kitchen [although it sounds like he 
says kickin']. I can't let that dinner burn. You know I thought I was going to 
have to eat alone tonight. 

GLEN: Well you probably will because I've already eaten. 

JOHNNY: What's up? 

GLEN: Nothin' much. 

JOHNNY: Say, you really look down in the dumps. 

GLEN: I guess I've got a problem. 

JOHNNY: Haven't we all? 

GLEN: I mean a real problem. One like I've never had to face before. 

JOHNNY: Our whole existence is one big problem after another. 

GLEN: I want to get married. 

JOHNNY: You have a problem. When did this all come about? 

GLEN: For nearly a year I've been engaged to a very wonderful girl. Now the time 
is getting very close to the man with the book, and I'm scared to death. 

JOHNNY: Do you love her? 

GLEN: Very much. 

JOHNNY: Does she love you? 

GLEN: Yes. 

JOHNNY: There's no problem. Marry the girl! 

GLEN: Are you forgetting about my other self? 

JOHNNY: You have to tell her of course. 

GLEN: Yeah...I have to tell her. But when? Before? Or after? 

JOHNNY: I think you know the answer to that one yourself. 

GLEN: My mind's in a muddle, like in a think fog. I can't make sense to myself 
sometimes. I thought I could stop wearing these things. I tried, honestly I 
tried. I haven't had a stitch of them on for nearly two weeks until tonight. 
Then I couldn't stand it any more. I had to put them on or go out of my mind. 
I'm afraid I'll lose her. I don't want that to happen because I really love her.
 
JOHNNY: Okay. Here's a story from fact... 

NARR.: Johnny tells his story. He had not too long ago been married himself. He 
had kept quite about his transvestite desires in hope that the new wife would 
never discover it. However, one day, the little woman came home unexpectedly an 
hour early. 

JOHNNY: That marriage ended here. Will your problem be like mine? Most probably 
it will, because her love hasn't been built up for such a thing. She, your wife, 
she will not have been taught enough about the problems to cope with it.
 
NARR.: Glen, Glenda, must now make her decision, or forever forget the marriage 
to Barbara. Glen, Glenda, should consult a competent psychiatrist, but then very 
few transvestites wish to change their desires. This is their life. To take it 
away from them might do as great a harm as taking away an arm or a leg, or life 
itself. Many even carry their transvestite desires to the grave with them. Yes, 
it is a problem, but Glenda...remember back almost a year ago when Glen and 
Barbara accepted each other? 

GLEN: G'night. 

BARBARA: That's the sixth time you've said goodnight. 

GLEN: I guess it is. Look, come on over here a minute. 

BARBARA: What is it? 

GLEN: Nevermind, just sit down. [pulls out a ring] 

BARBARA: Oh, I was beginning to think you'd never get around to it! 

GLEN: Then you mean you will? 

BARBARA: What do you think? 

GLEN: When? 

BARBARA: I must finish college first, only seven months to go. 

GLEN: Well that's hardly long enough for you to get a [something] together. 

BARBARA: How would you know about such things? Glen, what's the matter? 

GLEN: Huh? 

BARBARA: All of a sudden you seem a thousand miles off. 

GLEN: Yes, I guess I was, Honey. That's a mighty pretty dress you're wearing 
tonight. 

BARBARA: I wear my best to please you. 

GLEN: You know, when you look at me you just tie me in knots. 

BARBARA: I love to tie you in knots. I'll be so happy when these next few months 
are over. 

GLEN: Some special reason? 

BARBARA: Of course. So you can stop kissing me goodbye at the door every night. 

GLEN: Yes. 

BARBARA: So you can hold me close to you always. 

GLEN: Yes. 

BARBARA: Then all you'll have to do is call, and close your eyes, and feel my 
lips on yours. 

BELA: Beware...beware! Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your 
doorstep. He eats little boys...puppy dog tails, and big, fat snails. Beware, 
take care....beware! 

[And here begins the horribly strange, long, and quite boring dream sequence.] 

NARR.: Glenda, Glenda, has made the decision. Glen has decided to tell Barbara 
of his dual personality. To tell her of the nighties, the negligees, the 
sweaters and skirts, the robes and dresses, the stockings and the high-heeled 
shoes, the wig and the makeup. All that goes to make Glen into Glenda. He tells 
Barbara he cannot cheat her of the knowledge that she as his fiancee should 
posess. All the facts. He tells her softly, hurriedly at first, then slowly as 
he becomes more technical. His hands move to caress the smooth material of her 
angora sweater, which he has so long, so desperately wanted to put on his own 
body. He tells of this to her, and she looks to the sweater and to his hands. 
Then, when it is all over, and that much of the story he knows is told, Barbara 
is not sure of her own thoughts. 

GLEN: That's about it Darling. I've wanted to tell you for a long long time but 
just couldn't bring myself to do it. I've been too much afriad of losing you. 

BARBARA: Glen, I don't fully understand this, but maybe together we can work it 
out. 

WARREN: Is that the end of the story? 

ALTON: Not quite, I'll get back to it in a minute. Glen's case is really the 
lesser advanced type cases, the second case is an extremely advanced one, 
however I'll get to that in a moment. First you must realise that every 
transvestite the world over has his own particular problem. Each case must be 
handled individually according to the person, his past life, and his problem. 

WARREN: Did this Glen have any homosexual tendancies? 

ALTON: Absolutely not. It's very seldom that a transvestite does. 

WARREN: And he isn't a hermaphrodite? 

ALTON: No more than he's a pseudohermaphrodite [sp?]. Glen's case was entirely 
of his mind, brought on by the environment of his early youth. 

WARREN: What about their children, Doctor. Would their children become the same 
way their father is. 

ALTON: No. Transvestism is not hereditary. 

WARREN: What makes these men want to wear girls' clothes? 

ALTON: Many things, but as I've said before it usually starts in early childhood 
from one cause or another. Technically, each case has the same beginning, just a 
different set of circumstances. 

WARREN: Are any of them actually cured? 

ALTON: Oh yes, many many of them. Once the source of supply is found it can be 
stopped, unless the patient refuses to cut off that source of supply. 

WARREN: Then the way I get it, this Glen and the character he created, much as 
an author creates a character in a book, was invented as a love object, to take 
the place of the love he never received in his early youth, through lack of it 
from his parents. The character was created and dressed, and lives the life the 
author designs for him to live, and dies only when the author wants him to die. 

ALTON: Correct, except that for the character Glenda to die the elements must be 
right. But to enlighten you a little further there's a second story. That of an 
extremely advanced case. Let's call this person Alan, Anne. Alan had a mother 
who wanted a little girl. His father didn't care much one way or the other. Alan 
did not enter the competitive sports that the other boys at the school did. 
However he was an extremely studious boy and always had above average marks in 
his subjects. Yet, sports, girls' sports, he was always interested in. But he 
was rejected by the girls and also rejected by the boys. It seems he belonged to 
neither of them. After school, Alan would go home to find the mother who had 
always wanted a girl, and the father who didn't care one way or the other. He 
enjoyed doing the woman's work around the house. Alan was becoming a woman and 
didn't realise it. A woman in mind only, but the mind rules. Then came the 
fateful year of 1941. Alan was drafted. He was accepted. In the army, he 
successfully passed his vigorous training. He did not like it, but then there 
were the weekends for his particular diversions. On his weekend passes he would 
go to the nearest town where he had a suitcase checked in a public locker. In 
the suitcase he had the things he loved to wear, that which his made his body 
appear to be what his mind believed it was. Then the day of embarkation came. 
But wherever Alan went, the suitcase was sure to go. [stock footage of WWII, 
also used in Plan 9...goes on and on and on.] Then, as quickly as it had begun, 
the war was over. Alan came home. Alan had learned all the terms directed at men 
like himself. But no one had found out his aversion. He was honourably 
discharged from the service at the end of the war. He had received a silver star 
and a bronze star for gallantry in action. While he was in an army hospital 
recouperating from a wound he had received in New Guinea he learned a very 
interesting fact: he learned that foreign doctors were doing marvellous work 
with the sex change. Man to woman, woman to man. Shortly after his separation 
from service, Alan came to me for advice. There followed many sessions with my 
clinical reports, and the reports of eminent doctors. It had been found that 
Alan was really a pseudohermaphrodite, a hermaphrodite is one who has the organs 
of both the female and the male in plain sight. A pseudohermaphrodite is one who 
has one perfectly formed organ of either sex, and one imperfectly formed one 
that's difficult to detect. Alan was of the latter. Alan was then given his 
choice. That which nature had given him was a mistake. It was up to us to 
correct that mistake one way or another. Alan had to decide whether he wanted to 
become a man, or she wanted to become a woman, both were completely possible. 
Small boned, fair of complexion, his hair thin like a woman's, his body thin, 
hips slight girlish. It was easy to see his decision, along with the fact that 
he had been brought up from early childhood to believe that a woman was the 
thing to be. Alan decided to become a woman. This, after all the help I could 
give him was only the beginning. During the following two years he was to go 
through the tortures of the damned, but never was there a whimper from him 
because he knew that at the end of it all, he would at least be that what he had 
always dreamed. Hundreds of hormone shots were injected into various parts of 
his body. Alan's face was worked on with plastic surgery to smooth out the 
female elements. Long tedious hours of work. The big day, or the starting of 
many big days, for it was to take many. The series of operations are performed, 
slowly and at intervals to prevent any unnecessary shock to the nervous system. 
Still the hormone shots continue, day after day, week after week, month after 
month, and even then when the operation is over, the sex change, the shots must 
continue as long as Alan lives. First the breasts are brought, the body of the 
woman begins to appear now. Then comes the major surgery. The removal of the 
man, and the formation of the woman. But in time, Alan is Anne, a very happy 
young lady that modern medicine and science has created almost as a Frankenstein 
monster. The newspapers heard of it and hit the story with their usual fullness. 
If the papers had not gotten hold of the story it would have gone untold, 
unnoticed as so many others in medical history. The sex change has been 
performed hundreds of times, however right here in this particular sex switch 
it's not the end. Acting the woman and being the woman are entirely different 
things. Alan had all his life acted the part of the woman. Now he is that woman 
and must learn how it's done. Anne must learn how to do her own hair, how to 
make the correct styling for her facial contours. The proper walk must be 
adopted. A lady is a lady, whatever the case may be. Continuing my own 
psyciatric treatment, it was my duty now to explain to Anne the duty of a woman 
and her six life. Alan of course had known the man's, but he was soon to realise 
he knew very little about a woman's. Yet through it all, Anne loved every 
minute. Anne was indeed meant to be a woman. Now that the sex change had been 
completed, Anne was a very happy woman, and a woman who was eager to learn. And 
now was accepted by society. A woman born at the age of twenty-four [although 
she looks fifty]. In a world that for twenty-four years she had seen as a man, 
but a woman who now would, and was properly instructed to accept, a woman's 
world. Thus this case which has a happy ending is due entirely to the 
corrections made by medical science. I have had several such cases, in fact in 
my twenty years of practice I have been prominent in seven. However my 
colleagues have had hundreds [!!]. 

WARREN: Then you believe that the Glen of the first story should have the sex 
change? 

ALTON: In Glen's case no, no indeed. Glen would never be happy with a sex 
change. 

WARREN: The Alan of your story ended happy? 

ALTON: I'll tell it to you exactly as I told it to them. Shortly after Glen told 
Barbara of his love for girls' clothing he started treatments with me. On the 
last treatment both he and Barbara came to me. I told them the same story of 
Alan, Anne, as I've told it to you, Inspector. Anne was pseudohermaphrodite, 
even though one of the sexes was imperfect, she had the organs and 
characteristics of both the male and female. Glen's case is an entirely 
different type of case. Remember I said no matter what the case, it's a 
different thing, a new problem to be looked into, then solved. A new challenge 
to the psychoanalysis. Glen's body holds only one sex, that of the male. In all 
our talks I've learned these pertinent facts: Glen's father had no love for his 
son. His father wanted Glen to be a football hero, or a baseball player, so that 
he could brag to his cronies down at the corner saloon as his cronies bragged to 
him about their own sons. Thus the rues of Glen's fictitious character. He 
invented it when he could find no love from his mother and his father. His 
mother had hated her own father. Glen reminded her of her father, therefore she 
gave all her attention, love, and affection to her daughter. Glen then decided 
also to become a daughter. [cut to scene with Glen, Barbara, and Dr. Alton] 
Glen, you can kill this fictitious character of yours any time you wish, for 
your happy ending it's the only way. 

GLEN: Then you think I can kill this second character by tranferring her 
qualities to Barbara. 

ALTON: Exactly. But as the author and his character the elements must be right. 
It's up to you, Barbara. You must take the place, give the love and accept the 
facts that Glenda has always accepted. If you love each other as you now believe 
you do, it'll be a hard job, but you'll enjoy doing the job. 

BARBARA: Should I let him continue to wear girls' clothing, or should I put my 
foot down? 

ALTON: If you put your foot down he'd only go behind closed doors. Love is the 
only answer. Glenda must be transferred to you. 

BARBARA: Supposing Glen never gets over wearing girls' clothing. 

ALTON: Would it matter to you very much? 

BARBARA: I love Glen. I'll do everything I can to make him happy. 

NARR.: The end is only the beginning. Time passes, soon, due to a happily 
married life, the remembrance of the psychiatric treatments, and Barbara's love 
and understanding, Glenda begins to disappear forever from Glen. Glen has found 
his mother, his little sister, his wife, and his Glenda all in one lovely 
package. Thus Glen's case has a happy conclusion. 

ALTON: Therefore two entirely different cases, handled in two entirely different 
ways have a happy ending. 

WARREN: Yeah, those two. But what of the hundreds of other less fortunate Glens, 
the world over? 

BELA: Yes. But what of the others, less fortunate Glens, the world over? Oh, 
snips and snails and puppy dog tails. 

THE END (finally)