Editing Cross-dressing (section)

===''Transvestia''===
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In 1960, [[Virginia Prince]] published the first issue of ''[[Transvestia]]'',  a magazine aimed at cross-dressers.<ref>{{cite web |last=Prince |first=Virginia |date=1952 |title=Transvestia |publisher=Chevalier Publications |location=Los Angeles |website=University of Victoria |url=https://search.library.uvic.ca/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01VIC_INST:01UVIC&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LIBALL&docid=alma9955531023807291 |access-date=16 March 2025 <!--Reproduction of the original from Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society.-->}}</ref> Prince funded the initial publication with a capital of one hundred dollars raised through personal acquaintances.<ref name=career>Prince, Virginia. "My Accidental Career." How I Got Into Sex. Eds. B. Bullough, V.L. Bullough, M.A. Fithian, W.E. Hartman and R.S Klein. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1997.</ref>  The first issue was published by Prince's Chevalier Publications, and sold by subscription and through adult bookstores.<ref name=richard>{{cite book|title=Virginia Prince: Pioneer of Transgendering|year=2006|publisher=Haworth Medical Press Inc|location=Binghamton|editor=Richard Elkins and Dave King}}</ref><ref>"The Life and Times of Virginia", Transvestia #100 (1979)</ref>

In 1963, the inside jacket of the magazine stated the publication as "dedicated to the needs of the sexually normal individual who has discovered the {{sic|exi|stance}} of his or her 'other side' and seeks to express it."<ref name=richard/> Rather than relying on a team of professional authors, this magazine was to be"written by... the readers" with the editor's job to be organizing and categorizing these submissions as appropriate.<ref>Prince, Virginia. (1979). "The Life and Times of Virginia." Transvestia, 1.2.</ref>
 
''Transvestia'' was published bi-monthly by Prince between the years of 1960 and 1980, with a total of 100 issues being created. The subsequent 11 issues were edited and published by Carol Beecroft (the co-founder of Chevalier publications) until 1986.

With a readership of mostly white, middle-to-professional-class crossdressers, the magazine offered, among other things, dozens of published life stories and letters contributed by other crossdressers.<ref name=hill>Hill, Robert. (2011). "'We Share a Sacred Secret:' Gender, Domesticity, and Containment in Transvestia's Histories and Letters from Crossdressers and Their Wives." Journal of Social History 44.3: 667–687.</ref>