Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long have you been posing as a woman...
...Well, I really have been a woman all my life...
...mean that you've felt that you were more of a woman than...
Like most of Wyatt's guests, Transvestite Kahler was supplied by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform...
...with little show of emotion on his delicate features or in his contralto voice, chain-smoking Kahler gave a forthright, fascinating case history: his masquerade had grown so adept that from the age of 18 he had earned his living not as a female impersonator but as a woman and nightclub B girl. Wyatt's questioning brought out that Kahler had never known his father, that he came under the strong influence of his mother, "who had a lot of marriages." Kahler told of the "agony" of taunts by schoolmates, confessed that as a result of his problem...