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Glen or Glenda is a 1953 American exploitation film directed, written by and starring Ed Wood (credited in his starring role as "Daniel Davis"), and featuring Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller and Bela Lugosi. It was produced by George Weiss who also made the exploitation film Test Tube Babies that same year.
The film is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transvestism, and is semi-autobiographical in nature. Wood himself was a cross-dresser, and the film is a plea for tolerance. It was widely considered one of the worst films ever made upon release. However, it has since been reevaluated and has become a cult film due to its low-budget production values, idiosyncratic style, and early cinematic themes of transgender acceptance.
Plot
A police inspector investigating the suicide of a transvestite named Patrick/Patricia seeks the advice of Dr. Alton, who narrates for him the story of Glen/Glenda.
Glen started out by asking to wear his sister's dress for a Halloween party. The narrative explains that Glen is a transvestite, but not a homosexual. He hides his cross-dressing from his fiancée, Barbara, fearing that she will reject him. She voices her suspicion that there is another woman in his life, unaware that the woman is his feminine alter ego, Glenda.
Alton narrates that Glen is torn between the idea of being honest with Barbara before their wedding or waiting until after. Glen confides in a transvestite friend of his, John, whose wife left him after catching him wearing her clothes.
Glen/Glenda is caught in a storm. The sound of thunder causes him to collapse to the floor. An extended dream sequence begins, containing several vignettes symbolically depicting Glen's struggle with his sexuality. Glen/Glenda wakes and decides to tell Barbara the truth. She initially reacts with distress, but ultimately decides to stay with him. She offers him an angora sweater as a sign of acceptance.
Back in Dr. Alton's office, he relates another narrative, this one concerning a World War II veteran named Alan who underwent sex reassignment surgery to become "a lovely young woman" named Anne.
Cast
Ed Wood as Glen
Bela Lugosi as Scientist/Spirit
Ed Wood as Glen/Glenda
Timothy Farrell as Dr. Alton/Narrator
Dolores Fuller as Barbara
'Tommy' Haynes as Alan/Anne
Lyle Talbot as Inspector Warren
Charlie Crafts as Johnny
Conrad Brooks as Banker/Reporter/Pickup Artist/Bearded Drag
William M. A. deOrgler aka Captain DeZita as The Devil
The film is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transvestism, and is semi-autobiographical in nature. Wood himself was a cross-dresser, and the film is a plea for tolerance. It was widely considered one of the worst films ever made upon release. However, it has since been reevaluated and has become a cult film due to its low-budget production values, idiosyncratic style, and early cinematic themes of transgender acceptance.
Plot
A police inspector investigating the suicide of a transvestite named Patrick/Patricia seeks the advice of Dr. Alton, who narrates for him the story of Glen/Glenda.
Glen started out by asking to wear his sister's dress for a Halloween party. The narrative explains that Glen is a transvestite, but not a homosexual. He hides his cross-dressing from his fiancée, Barbara, fearing that she will reject him. She voices her suspicion that there is another woman in his life, unaware that the woman is his feminine alter ego, Glenda.
Alton narrates that Glen is torn between the idea of being honest with Barbara before their wedding or waiting until after. Glen confides in a transvestite friend of his, John, whose wife left him after catching him wearing her clothes.
Glen/Glenda is caught in a storm. The sound of thunder causes him to collapse to the floor. An extended dream sequence begins, containing several vignettes symbolically depicting Glen's struggle with his sexuality. Glen/Glenda wakes and decides to tell Barbara the truth. She initially reacts with distress, but ultimately decides to stay with him. She offers him an angora sweater as a sign of acceptance.
Back in Dr. Alton's office, he relates another narrative, this one concerning a World War II veteran named Alan who underwent sex reassignment surgery to become "a lovely young woman" named Anne.
Cast
Ed Wood as Glen
Bela Lugosi as Scientist/Spirit
Ed Wood as Glen/Glenda
Timothy Farrell as Dr. Alton/Narrator
Dolores Fuller as Barbara
'Tommy' Haynes as Alan/Anne
Lyle Talbot as Inspector Warren
Charlie Crafts as Johnny
Conrad Brooks as Banker/Reporter/Pickup Artist/Bearded Drag
William M. A. deOrgler aka Captain DeZita as The Devil
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Short filmTranscript
00:00:00The End
00:00:30Then comes the major surgery, the removal of the man and the formation of the woman.
00:00:36A woman born at the age of 24.
00:00:40A new life is begun.
00:00:44The body of the woman within begins to appear now.
00:00:47The world is shocked by a person who changed his sex.
00:00:51Thus, the strange case of Glenn, who was Glenda, one and the same person, not half man, half woman,
00:00:58but nevertheless, man and woman in the same body.
00:01:02He dares to enter the street dressed in the clothes he so much desires to wear.
00:01:07Glenn is engaged to be married to Barbara.
00:01:09Glenn's problem is a deep one, but he must tell her soon.
00:01:13She's begun to notice things.
00:01:15Soon she will realize.
00:01:18He learned that foreign doctors were doing marvelous work with the sex change.
00:01:22Man to woman, woman to man.
00:01:23Say, did you read about the guy that had his sex changed to a girl?
00:01:29Says he was perfectly normal, too.
00:01:31How can a guy be normal and go and do a thing like that to himself?
00:01:35What about their children, doctor?
00:01:37Would their children become the same way their father is?
00:01:41Glenda has made the decision.
00:01:43If the newspapers had not gotten hold of the story, it would have gone untold,
00:01:47unnoticed to so many others in medical history.
00:01:49Why is the modern world shocked by this headline?
00:01:54Why?
00:01:55Do you realize what would happen if every man in the country
00:01:57that wanted to wear women's clothes or felt like a woman
00:02:00went to their doctors and wanted a sex change?
00:02:03Glenn and all the hundreds of thousands of other Glens across the nation
00:02:07face quite a problem.
00:02:08Well, thank you very much.
00:02:38Oh, my God.
00:03:08Oh, my God.
00:03:38Oh, my God.
00:04:08Oh, my God.
00:04:38Oh, my God.
00:05:08Oh, my God.
00:05:38Oh, my God.
00:06:08Oh, my God.
00:06:38Oh, my God.
00:06:40Oh, my God.
00:06:40Oh, my God.
00:07:10Oh, my God.
00:07:40Oh, my God.
00:08:10A new day is begun.
00:08:16A new day is begun.
00:08:18A new life is begun.
00:08:28A new day is begun.
00:08:29A new life is ended.
00:08:40A new life is ended.
00:08:42A new life is ended.
00:08:44A new life is begun.
00:08:59Let me see that note.
00:09:09The records will tell the story.
00:09:13I was put in jail recently.
00:09:17Why?
00:09:18Because I, a man, was caught on the street wearing women's clothing.
00:09:23This was my fourth arrest for the same act.
00:09:27In life, I must continue wearing them.
00:09:31Therefore, it would only be a matter of time until my next arrest.
00:09:36This is the only way.
00:09:38Let my body rest in death forever in the things I cannot wear in life.
00:09:52Inspector Warren is here to see you, Dr. Alton.
00:09:55Oh, yes. Show him in, Miss Stevens.
00:09:57Let's see you, Mr. Alton.
00:10:06Inspector?
00:10:07Doctor?
00:10:07Sit down.
00:10:15You're a very busy man, Dr. Alton, I know.
00:10:18I appreciate this time you're giving me.
00:10:21Business or pleasure, Inspector?
00:10:23Inspector, in a way, business.
00:10:28From policeman to inspector.
00:10:31Twenty years of it.
00:10:32I guess I've seen everything there is for a policeman to see.
00:10:37Yet I wonder if we ever stop learning.
00:10:41Learning about which we see.
00:10:43Trying to learn more about, uh...
00:10:47An ounce of prevention.
00:10:48I'm a man who thrives on learning.
00:10:55We only have one life to live.
00:10:58We throw that one away.
00:10:59What is there left?
00:11:04Doctor?
00:11:05I'm hoping to learn something from you.
00:11:10And with that knowledge, maybe save some human
00:11:13from a fate which I just witnessed a few days ago.
00:11:18A four-time loser.
00:11:20This type of case comes to me as well as yourself
00:11:23many times during the course of one month.
00:11:25The suicide?
00:11:28The suicide.
00:11:30Most of us have our idiosyncrasies.
00:11:32This fellow's was quite pronounced.
00:11:35Yes, but I wonder if it rated the death warrant it received.
00:11:39I don't think so.
00:11:41Well, that's why I'm here today, Doctor.
00:11:43What do we do about it?
00:11:45I've always heard you to be a hard-hearted policeman, Inspector.
00:11:50Isn't that what's thought of most policemen?
00:11:52The laws are written.
00:11:53The policeman is hired to see that those laws are enforced.
00:11:57We have a job to do.
00:11:59As in most jobs, there's always somebody
00:12:02who doesn't want that job to be done.
00:12:04In most factories today,
00:12:06the employer has put up suggestion boxes.
00:12:09Even the employer needs advice once in a while.
00:12:13I think in the case that we're referring to,
00:12:15I need advice.
00:12:17Maybe it shouldn't have happened as it did.
00:12:20But it did.
00:12:21Perhaps the next time, we can prevent it.
00:12:25Let's get our story straight.
00:12:27You're referring to the suicide of the transvestite?
00:12:30If that's the word you men of medical science use for a man who wears woman's clothing.
00:12:35Yes.
00:12:35Yes, in cold, technical language, that's the word.
00:12:40As unfriendly and as vicious as it may sound.
00:12:43However, in actuality, it's not an unfriendly word,
00:12:45nor is it vicious when you know the people to whom it pertains.
00:12:49Would the sex operation do these people any good?
00:12:51I understand you were quite prominent in the case that hit the headlines a few weeks ago.
00:12:56In some cases, yes.
00:12:57Others, no.
00:12:59Well, the papers certainly had a field day with that one.
00:13:02Strange as it may seem, even though it was a field day, as you so aptly put it,
00:13:06it's not a new story.
00:13:08Sex change has been performed many times.
00:13:11Those whose sex can be changed, they're the easy ones.
00:13:14But what of those who so desperately want to be of the opposite sex,
00:13:18yet can't change their sex?
00:13:20Such as was the case with Patrick, Patricia, the suicide.
00:13:25I'd like to understand this, doctor, as best you can tell me.
00:13:28You can only fully understand the sex change by taking two entirely different cases.
00:13:34Two men with exactly the same background,
00:13:37from childhood to manhood and on to their own decisions and destinations.
00:13:41I'd like to hear the story to the fullest.
00:13:43Only the infinity of the depths of a man's mind can really tell the story.
00:14:00Dr. Martin.
00:14:05A young man, though he is,
00:14:08speaks the words of the all-wise.
00:14:13No one can really tell the story.
00:14:19Mistakes are made.
00:14:23But there is no mistaking the thoughts in a man's mind.
00:14:30The story is begun.
00:14:39The story is begun.
00:14:39One might say,
00:15:01There, but for the grace of God, go I.
00:15:09Why is the modern world shocked by this headline?
00:15:13Why?
00:15:13Once, not so very long ago, the people of the world were saying,
00:15:18Airplanes.
00:15:19Huh.
00:15:21Why, it's against the creator's will.
00:15:24If the creator wanted us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
00:15:28But, we fly, maybe some of you may still remember an even sillier remark.
00:15:35Automobiles?
00:15:36Automobiles?
00:15:37Bah!
00:15:37They scare the hosses.
00:15:40If the creator had meant for us to roll around the countryside, we'd have been born with wheels.
00:15:45Silly?
00:15:46Certainly.
00:15:49We were not born with wings.
00:15:51We were not born with wheels.
00:15:54But, in the modern world of today, it's an accepted fact that we must have them.
00:15:59So, we have corrected that which nature has not given us.
00:16:03Strangely enough, nature has given us all these things.
00:16:06We just had to learn how to put nature's elements together for our use.
00:16:10That's all.
00:16:10Yet, the world is shocked by a sex change.
00:16:15If the creator had wanted us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
00:16:20If the creator had meant us to roll around the countryside, we'd have been born with wheels.
00:16:26If the creator had meant us to be boys, we certainly would have been born boys.
00:16:32If the creator had meant us to be born girls, we certainly would have been born girls.
00:16:38Are we sure?
00:16:40Nature makes mistakes.
00:16:44It's proven every day.
00:16:46This person is a transvestite.
00:16:48A man who is more comfortable wearing girls' clothes.
00:16:52The term transvestite is the name given by medical science to those persons who wear the clothing of the opposite sex.
00:16:59Many a transvestite actually wishes to be the opposite sex.
00:17:03The title of this can only be labeled Behind Locked Doors.
00:17:08Give 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.
00:17:18He 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.
00:17:26These things are his comfort.
00:17:28But why the wig and makeup?
00:17:30He dares to enter the street dressed in the clothes he so much desires to wear.
00:17:35Most transvestites do not want to change their life, their bodies.
00:17:48Many of them simply want to change the clothing they wear to that as worn by the opposite sex.
00:17:53Glenn is engaged to be married to Barbara, a lovely, intelligent girl.
00:17:58Those fingernails have got to go.
00:18:01You know, I didn't realize they're as long as they are.
00:18:04My goodness, they're almost as long as mine.
00:18:07Maybe even prettier.
00:18:09We'll have to paint them sometime just for the fun of it.
00:18:12We'll trim them.
00:18:14That's for sure.
00:18:15You know, honey, you've invited me to dinner so many times in the last couple of months.
00:18:21It's almost like we're married already.
00:18:23I wish we were, darling.
00:18:25It's been a long year.
00:18:27For both of us.
00:18:29But now, my studies are through, college is concluded, and I'm free at last.
00:18:36Free?
00:18:37For the time being.
00:18:38Huh?
00:18:40Oh.
00:18:42How about joining me for an after-dinner drink?
00:18:45In the living room?
00:18:46Mm-hmm.
00:18:52Modern man is a hard-working human.
00:18:55Throughout the day, his mind and his muscles are busy at building the modern world and its business administration.
00:19:01His clothing is rough, coarse, starched, according to the specifications of his accepted job.
00:19:07At home, what does modern man have to look forward to for his body comfort?
00:19:15The things provided for his home.
00:19:17A wool or flannel robe.
00:19:19His feet encased in the same thick, tight-fitting leather that his shoes are made of.
00:19:25These are the things provided for his home comfort.
00:19:27It doesn't look so comfortable, does it?
00:19:32And get the hat.
00:19:33Better still, get the receding hairline.
00:19:36Men's hats are so tight, they cut off the blood flow to the head, thus cutting off the growth of hair.
00:19:41Seven out of ten men wear a hat, so the advertisements say.
00:19:46Seven out of ten men are bald.
00:19:49But what about the ladies?
00:19:52Yes, modern woman is a hard-working individual also.
00:19:56But when modern woman's day of work is done, that which is designed for her home comfort is comfort.
00:20:04Hats that give no obstruction to the blood flow.
00:20:07Hats that do not crush the hair.
00:20:09Interesting thought, isn't it?
00:20:13Just for comparison, let's go native.
00:20:16Back to the animal instinct.
00:20:18There, in the lesser civilized part of the world,
00:20:22it's the male who adorns himself with the fancy objects such as paints, frills, and masks.
00:20:27The true instinct.
00:20:29The animal instinct.
00:20:31Bird and animal life.
00:20:33Is it not so that it's the male who is the fancy one?
00:20:36Could it be that the male was meant to attract the attention of the female?
00:20:41What's so wrong about that?
00:20:44Where is the animal instinct in modern civilization?
00:20:47Female has the fluff and the finery, as specified by those who design and sell.
00:20:53Little Miss Female, you should feel quite proud of the situation.
00:20:57You, of course, realize that it's predominantly men who design your clothes, your jewelry, your makeup, your hairstyling, your perfume.
00:21:06But life, even though its changes are slow, moves on.
00:21:12There's no law against wearing such apparel on the street,
00:21:15as long as it can be distinguished that man is man and woman is woman.
00:21:19But, what is it that would happen were this individual to appear this way on the street?
00:21:27You're doing it now, laughing.
00:21:30Yet, it's not a situation to be laughed at.
00:21:34Thus, the strange case of Glenn, who is Glenda, one and the same person.
00:21:39Not half man, half woman.
00:21:42But, nevertheless, man and woman in the same body.
00:21:45Even though, by all outward appearances, Glenn is fully and completely a man.
00:22:06Sister, let me borrow her dress.
00:22:08You want to borrow your sister's dress?
00:22:11What for?
00:22:12I want to wear it to the Halloween party.
00:22:14There are names for boys who go around wearing girls' clothes.
00:22:18Oh, don't be silly, darling.
00:22:20You go ahead and wear your sister's dress, Glenn.
00:22:23You always did look much better as a girl than you do as a man.
00:22:28Glenn did wear the dress to the Halloween party.
00:22:30He even took first prize.
00:22:32Then, one day, it wasn't Halloween any longer.
00:22:41I wish I had the sight into such things to be able to advise you, Sheila.
00:23:09Maybe, maybe if you took the problem to a doctor.
00:23:15It's Glenn that needs the doctor.
00:23:19But, but when things like this go wrong with someone so close and, and in your own family,
00:23:27it's so hard to believe.
00:23:29It's not really hard to believe.
00:23:32It's just hard for you to accept.
00:23:34Well, of course it's hard for me to accept.
00:23:36Suppose I, I were to come home with Roy or one of my other boyfriends some night,
00:23:41and find Glenn like I did last night.
00:23:44Yeah.
00:23:45That would be hard to explain.
00:23:48That's the understatement of the year.
00:23:51Just how does one go about introducing your friends to your brother,
00:23:55when brother's wearing your best sweater and your skirt and makeup to boot?
00:24:01Glenn is not a homosexual.
00:24:12Glenn is a transvestite, but he is not a homosexual.
00:24:16Transvestism is the term given by medical science to those persons
00:24:20who desperately wish to wear the clothing of the opposite sex,
00:24:24yet whose sex life in all instances remains quite normal.
00:24:28Would you be surprised to know that this rough, tough individual
00:24:32was wearing pink satin undies under his rough exterior clothing?
00:24:36He is.
00:24:38Then there is your friend, the milkman, who,
00:24:41who knows how to find comfort at home.
00:24:49I can't stand it any longer.
00:24:52He wears all my clothes.
00:24:54Nothing is sacred to him, even my briefs.
00:24:58He has every one of my sweaters stretched out of shape.
00:25:04Of course, he has always replaced them.
00:25:06But then, they didn't last long either.
00:25:12But your honor ruffles on his shirts and shorts.
00:25:18Really.
00:25:19Glenn and all the hundreds of thousands of other Glens across the nation
00:25:24face quite a problem.
00:25:26Glenn is engaged to be married to Barbara,
00:25:29a lovely, intelligent girl.
00:25:31The problem?
00:25:33Glenda.
00:25:34Glenn's other self.
00:25:36The girl that he himself is.
00:25:38His other individual personality.
00:25:40You look tired tonight, Glenn.
00:25:44Yeah, I guess I am.
00:25:46It's been a long day.
00:25:48Have you seen the paper yet?
00:25:50No way.
00:25:51It's headline.
00:25:52A man had his sex changed to a woman.
00:25:56Isn't that a strange case?
00:25:58I wonder how some people's mind works.
00:26:01Well, some people aren't happy the way they are.
00:26:04I suppose so, but to change one's sex,
00:26:08that's a pretty drastic step to take.
00:26:12If it's the only way,
00:26:14I'm for it.
00:26:17I wonder what I would do in a case like that,
00:26:20if I were in the mental turmoil that that person went through.
00:26:23Or if I suddenly realized that something was mentally wrong with you.
00:26:29It's hard to visualize.
00:26:32Here we are.
00:26:33Two perfectly normal people.
00:26:35About to be married and lead a normal life together.
00:26:39And there's this poor fellow
00:26:41who never could have been happy
00:26:42if it wasn't for modern medical science.
00:26:46Our fourth term in psychology explains a lot of the facts.
00:26:49But I'm afraid the end of study
00:26:52is only the beginning of reality.
00:26:55Glenn's problem is a deep one.
00:26:57But he must tell her soon.
00:26:59She's begun to notice things.
00:27:01His nails.
00:27:03His eyes when he looks into a lady's store window.
00:27:06So many of the little things that are hard to hide.
00:27:09Soon she will realize.
00:27:12Then there was the time Barbara was wearing the sweater
00:27:15Glenn had always wanted to feel on his own body.
00:27:17It was becoming an obsession to him.
00:27:20He must have it.
00:27:21What's the matter, Glenn, darling?
00:27:24I guess I was daydreaming.
00:27:27Something seems to be troubling you.
00:27:30Why don't you tell me?
00:27:32It's nothing.
00:27:33Once long ago,
00:27:35just after we started going steady together,
00:27:38we promised we'd never lie to each other.
00:27:41Are we going to start now
00:27:43just because we're engaged to be married?
00:27:44It's just that...
00:27:48Oh, Barbara,
00:27:49it's nothing that little sleep won't cure.
00:27:50It's been an awful long day.
00:27:52It's more than that.
00:27:54Come on, tell me, darling.
00:27:56Who knows?
00:27:57Maybe I can help.
00:27:59That's just it.
00:28:00You could.
00:28:01Then something is troubling you.
00:28:03Yes.
00:28:04Do I have a right to know?
00:28:06You have a right to know.
00:28:07But let's just say for the moment that
00:28:10I'm afraid to tell you.
00:28:12I'm afraid I'd lose you.
00:28:15Nothing could be as bad as all that.
00:28:18I love you,
00:28:19and you love me.
00:28:20And nothing in the world can change that.
00:28:24I hope not.
00:28:26I really hope not.
00:28:27Glenn,
00:28:31is it another woman?
00:28:39Hold this drink.
00:28:41Hold this drink.
00:28:44A mistake's made.
00:28:51A story must be told.
00:28:54Always the same.
00:28:58He's not had the nerve to tell her.
00:29:01But he must soon come to some conclusion
00:29:02or forget the marriage.
00:29:04Should he tell Barbara of his Glenda now,
00:29:07before the wedding,
00:29:08or hit her between the eyes with it after,
00:29:11when it might be too late for either of them?
00:29:16The world is a strange place to live in.
00:29:19All those cars,
00:29:21all going someplace,
00:29:22all caring humans
00:29:24which are carrying out their lives.
00:29:28The world is shocked
00:29:30by a person who changed his sex.
00:29:33Glenda is shocked also,
00:29:34but by another reason.
00:29:36Someone like her
00:29:37had the nerve
00:29:38to do something factual
00:29:39about their situation.
00:29:41There are so many problems
00:29:43for Glenn
00:29:43and all the other Glens.
00:29:45Perhaps the fear of discovery
00:29:47of the underthings they wear
00:29:48beneath their regular outer clothing,
00:29:50or that which they wear
00:29:52during their nightly visit
00:29:53to Morpheus,
00:29:54God of Sleep.
00:29:57Thank you very much,
00:29:58and I'm sure she's going to enjoy it very much.
00:30:00If you want to return it,
00:30:01be sure that you bring the sales slip.
00:30:03Can I help you, sir?
00:30:12Yeah.
00:30:14Let me see a nightie.
00:30:15Whoa, what size?
00:30:17Twelve.
00:30:18The color, the material?
00:30:21Black.
00:30:22I'm very sheer.
00:30:24Just a minute.
00:30:25Well, we have this here.
00:30:31Would you like that?
00:30:32Something like this?
00:30:34As lace?
00:30:35Yeah.
00:30:37Perhaps he admires
00:30:38the material too long.
00:30:40You can see how sheer
00:30:41the material really is.
00:30:44Yes.
00:30:46You see, it's all pure nylon
00:30:47and only $21.95.
00:30:50And of course,
00:30:51it will never snag.
00:30:52But Glenn and Glenda
00:31:02and all the Glens and Glendas
00:31:04have an even bigger problem.
00:31:22The homosexual, it is true,
00:31:25at times does adopt the clothing
00:31:27or the makeup of a woman
00:31:29to lure members of his own sex.
00:31:31But this is not so
00:31:33for the transvestite.
00:31:35The transvestite is not interested
00:31:37in those of their own sex.
00:31:39The clothing is not worn
00:31:40to attract the attention
00:31:41of their own sex,
00:31:42but to eliminate themselves
00:31:44from being a member of that sex.
00:31:46Hi, Joe.
00:31:53How are you, Jack?
00:31:54Monday again.
00:31:56You know, I think Monday
00:31:57is about the worst day
00:31:58of the week.
00:31:59A perfectly wonderful weekend
00:32:01and back to the sweatshops.
00:32:04Too bad we was born to work.
00:32:06Say, did you read about the guy
00:32:08that had his sex changed
00:32:10to a girl?
00:32:11Says he was perfectly normal too.
00:32:13How can a guy be normal
00:32:14and go and do a thing
00:32:15like that to himself?
00:32:17All the same,
00:32:18it must take a lot of guts
00:32:20to pull a stunt like that.
00:32:21That's a problem
00:32:22I don't ever intend to face.
00:32:24Maybe it's a problem
00:32:25we should all face.
00:32:26I don't get you.
00:32:27Just think of the unhappy life.
00:32:29The miserable time
00:32:31this world of ours
00:32:32must have given that poor guy.
00:32:34I still don't get you.
00:32:35Now, here is a guy
00:32:37who wanted to be a girl.
00:32:39Supposing there had been
00:32:40no way to change his sex.
00:32:41You sound as if you're
00:32:43really head up on this thing.
00:32:44I guess I am.
00:32:46Do you realize
00:32:47what would happen
00:32:47if every man in the country
00:32:48that wanted to wear
00:32:49women's clothes
00:32:50or felt like a woman
00:32:51went to their doctors
00:32:52and wanted a sex change?
00:32:54Of course.
00:32:55That's why I say
00:32:56perhaps society
00:32:57should be a little bit
00:32:58more lenient with it.
00:32:59Maybe society should try
00:33:01to understand them
00:33:02as human beings.
00:33:06Another day, Don.
00:33:08Thank goodness.
00:33:09See you tomorrow, Jack.
00:33:14Yeah.
00:33:15So long, Joe.
00:33:17Until tomorrow.
00:33:19Hello.
00:33:30Hi, Glenn.
00:33:31Hi, Johnny.
00:33:32Come on in
00:33:33and hit it right for the kicking.
00:33:35I can't let that dinner burn.
00:33:36You know, I thought
00:33:38I was going to have
00:33:39to eat alone tonight.
00:33:41Well, you probably will
00:33:41because I've already eaten.
00:33:56What's up?
00:33:57Nothing much.
00:33:58Say,
00:33:59you really look down
00:34:00in the dumps.
00:34:02I guess I got a problem.
00:34:03Haven't we all?
00:34:04I mean a real problem.
00:34:07One like I've never
00:34:08had to face before.
00:34:10Our whole existence
00:34:12is one big problem
00:34:13after another.
00:34:14I want to get married.
00:34:16You have a problem.
00:34:20When did this all come about?
00:34:23For nearly a year,
00:34:25I've been engaged
00:34:25to a very wonderful girl.
00:34:28Now the time
00:34:29is getting very close
00:34:30to the man with the book.
00:34:30I'm scared to death.
00:34:34You love her?
00:34:35Very much.
00:34:36Does she love you?
00:34:39Yes.
00:34:40There's no problem.
00:34:42Marry the girl.
00:34:44Are you forgetting
00:34:45about my other self?
00:34:47You'll have to tell her,
00:34:49of course.
00:34:51Yeah.
00:34:53I have to tell her.
00:34:54But when?
00:34:58Before?
00:35:00Or after?
00:35:02I think you know
00:35:03the answer
00:35:04to that one yourself.
00:35:06My mind's in a muddle.
00:35:09Like in a thick fog.
00:35:13I can't make sense
00:35:14to myself sometimes.
00:35:17I thought I could
00:35:18stop wearing these things.
00:35:20I tried.
00:35:20Honestly, I tried.
00:35:21I haven't had
00:35:24a stitch of them on
00:35:25for nearly two weeks
00:35:26until tonight.
00:35:29Then I couldn't
00:35:30stand it anymore.
00:35:33I had to put
00:35:34the moniker
00:35:34out of my mind.
00:35:38I'm afraid
00:35:39I'll lose her.
00:35:42I don't want
00:35:43that to happen
00:35:43because
00:35:43I really love her.
00:35:48Okay.
00:35:49Here's a story
00:35:50from fact.
00:35:53Johnny tells
00:35:54his story.
00:35:55He had not too long
00:35:56ago been married
00:35:57himself.
00:35:58He had kept quiet
00:35:59about his transvestite
00:36:00desires in the hopes
00:36:02that the new wife
00:36:02would never discover it.
00:36:04However,
00:36:05one day,
00:36:07the little woman
00:36:07came home
00:36:08unexpectedly
00:36:09an hour early.
00:36:10that marriage
00:36:20ended here.
00:36:22Will your problem
00:36:24be like mine?
00:36:27Most probably
00:36:28it will
00:36:29because a love
00:36:31hasn't been built up
00:36:32for such a thing.
00:36:34She,
00:36:35your wife,
00:36:37she will not
00:36:38have been taught enough
00:36:39about the
00:36:40problems
00:36:41to cope with it.
00:36:45Glenn,
00:36:46Glenda
00:36:47must now
00:36:47make her decision
00:36:48or forever
00:36:51forget the marriage
00:36:52to Barbara.
00:36:53Glenn,
00:36:54Glenda
00:36:55should consult
00:36:55a competent
00:36:56psychiatrist,
00:36:57but then
00:36:58very few
00:36:58transvestites
00:36:59wish to change
00:37:00their strange
00:37:01desires.
00:37:02This is their
00:37:03life.
00:37:04To take it
00:37:04away from them
00:37:05might do as
00:37:06great a harm
00:37:06as taking away
00:37:07an arm
00:37:07or a leg
00:37:08or life
00:37:09itself.
00:37:11Many even
00:37:12carry their
00:37:12transvestite
00:37:13desires to
00:37:14the grave
00:37:14with them.
00:37:18Yes,
00:37:19it is a problem.
00:37:21But Glenda,
00:37:22remember back
00:37:22almost a year ago
00:37:23when Glenn
00:37:24and Barbara
00:37:24accepted each other?
00:37:30Good night.
00:37:31That's the
00:37:32sixth time
00:37:33you've said
00:37:33good night.
00:37:34I guess
00:37:35it is.
00:37:36Look,
00:37:38come on
00:37:39over here
00:37:39a minute.
00:37:40What is it?
00:37:41Never mind,
00:37:42just sit down.
00:37:49Oh,
00:37:50I was beginning
00:37:51to think
00:37:51you'd never
00:37:52get around to it.
00:37:54Do you mean
00:37:54you're wealthy?
00:37:55What do you
00:37:56think?
00:37:56What do you
00:37:57think?
00:37:57What do you
00:37:58think?
00:37:58What do you
00:37:59think?
00:37:59What do you
00:38:00think?
00:38:00What do you
00:38:01think?
00:38:01What do you
00:38:03think?
00:38:03What do you
00:38:04think?
00:38:05When?
00:38:05We must
00:38:05finish college
00:38:06first.
00:38:07It's only
00:38:07seven months
00:38:08to go.
00:38:09Well,
00:38:09that's hardly
00:38:10long enough
00:38:10for you
00:38:10to get
00:38:11a trousseau
00:38:11together.
00:38:12How would
00:38:12you know
00:38:13about such
00:38:13things?
00:38:14glenn,
00:38:30what's the
00:38:31matter?
00:38:33Huh?
00:38:34All of a
00:38:35sudden,
00:38:35you seem
00:38:35a thousand
00:38:36miles off.
00:38:37Yes,
00:38:38I guess I
00:38:39was,
00:38:39huh?
00:38:39That's a
00:38:42mighty pretty
00:38:42dress you're
00:38:43wearing tonight.
00:38:44I wear my
00:38:44best to
00:38:45please you.
00:38:47You know,
00:38:48when you
00:38:49look at me,
00:38:49you just
00:38:50tie me in
00:38:50knots.
00:38:51I love to
00:38:52tie you in
00:38:52knots.
00:38:55Oh,
00:38:55I'll be so
00:38:55happy when
00:38:56these next
00:38:57few months
00:38:57are over.
00:38:58Some special
00:38:59reason?
00:38:59Of course,
00:39:00so you can
00:39:01stop kissing me
00:39:02goodbye at the
00:39:03door every night.
00:39:03Yes.
00:39:06So you can
00:39:07hold me close
00:39:08to you always.
00:39:09Yes.
00:39:10Then all you'll
00:39:11have to do is
00:39:12call and close
00:39:13your eyes and
00:39:14feel my lips
00:39:15unure.
00:39:31Be bad.
00:39:32Beware.
00:39:33Beware.
00:39:36Beware of the
00:39:37big green dragon
00:39:39that sits on
00:39:40your doorstep.
00:39:43He eats little
00:39:44boys,
00:39:47happy duck
00:39:47tails and
00:39:48big fat
00:39:50snails.
00:39:53Beware.
00:39:56Take care.
00:40:00Beware.
00:40:02beware.
00:40:09Beware.
00:40:10Beware.
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00:50:27Everything nice.
00:50:33Puppy dog tail.
00:50:35Puppy dog tail.
00:50:37Puppy dog tail.
00:50:45I'm a girl.
00:50:49I'm not.
00:50:51Everything nice.
00:50:53Everything nice.
00:50:55Ha ha ha.
00:50:57Puppy dog tail.
00:50:59Puppy dog tail.
00:51:01Puppy dog tail.
00:51:03Puppy dog tail.
00:51:05Puppy dog tail.
00:51:07Puppy dog tail.
00:51:09Puppy dog tail.
00:51:11Puppy dog tail.
00:51:13Puppy dog tail.
00:51:15Puppy dog tail.
00:51:17Puppy dog tail.
00:51:19Puppy dog tail.
00:51:21Puppy dog tail.
00:51:23Puppy dog tail.
00:57:55transvestite the world over has his own particular problem. Each case must be handled individually
00:58:00according to the person, his past life, and his problem. Did this Glenn have any homosexual
00:58:06tendencies? Absolutely not. It's very seldom that a true transvestite does. And he isn't a hermaphrodite?
00:58:13No more than he's a pseudo-hermaphrodite. Glenn's case was entirely of his mind, brought on by the
00:58:18environment of his early youth. What about their children, doctor? Would their children become the
00:58:23same way their father is? No. Transvestism is not hereditary. What makes these men want to wear
00:58:29girls' clothes? Many things. But as I've said before, it usually starts in early childhood from
00:58:35one cause or another. Technically, each case has the same beginning, just a different set of
00:58:40circumstances. Are any of them actually cured? Oh yes, many, many of them. Once the source of supply
00:58:47is found, it can be stopped, unless the patient refuses to cut off that source of supply. Then
00:58:53the way I get it, this Glenn and the character he created, much as an author creates a character
00:58:58in a book, was invented as a love object to take the place of the love he never received
00:59:03in his early youth, through lack of it from his parents. The character was created and dressed
00:59:08and lives the life the author designs for him to live, and dies only when the author wants
00:59:14him to die. Correct. Except that for the character Glenn did a die, the elements must be right.
00:59:19But to enlighten you a little further, there's the second story, that of an extremely advanced
00:59:24case. Let's call this person Allen. Allen had a mother who wanted a little girl. The father
00:59:32didn't care much one way or the other. Allen did not enter the competitive sports that the
00:59:37other boys of the school did. However, he was an extremely studious boy and always had
00:59:42above average marks in his subjects. Yet sports, girls' sports, he always was interested in. But he
00:59:49was rejected by the girls and also rejected by the boys. It seems he belonged to neither of them.
00:59:55After school, Allen would go home to find the mother who had always wanted a girl,
00:59:59and the father who didn't care one way or the other. He enjoyed doing the woman's work around
01:00:05the house. Allen was becoming a woman and didn't realize it. A woman in mind only, but the mind
01:00:12rules. Then came the fateful year of 1941. Allen was drafted. He was accepted. In the army, he successfully
01:00:21passed his vigorous training. He did not like it, and there were the weekends for his particular
01:00:26diversions. On his weekend passes, he would go to the nearest town where he had a suitcase checked
01:00:32in a public locker. In the suitcase, he had the things he loved to wear, that which made
01:00:40his body appear to be what his mind believed it was. Then the day of embarkation came. But
01:00:49wherever Allen went, the suitcase was sure to go.
01:01:19He will now go.
01:01:21I get it.
01:01:21It's obvious. It was a sign without esos. You told me that he was already in the
01:01:41house.
01:01:42Then, as quickly as it had begun, the war was over.
01:02:09Alan came home.
01:02:10Alan had learned all the terms directed at men like himself, but no one had found out his aversion.
01:02:17He was honorably discharged from the service at the end of the war.
01:02:20He had received the silver star and the bronze star for gallantry in action.
01:02:24While he was in an army hospital recuperating from a wound he had received in New Guinea, he learned a very interesting fact.
01:02:30He learned that foreign doctors were doing marvelous work with a sex change, man to woman, woman to man.
01:02:36Shortly after his separation from service, Alan came to me for advice.
01:02:41There followed many long sessions with my clinical reports and the reports of eminent doctors.
01:02:46It had been found that Alan was really a pseudo-hermaphrodite.
01:02:53A hermaphrodite is one who has the organs of both the male and female in plain sight.
01:02:58A pseudo-hermaphrodite is one who has one perfectly formed organ of either sex and one imperfectly formed one that's difficult to detect.
01:03:07Alan was of the latter.
01:03:08Alan was then given his choice.
01:03:16That which nature had given him was a mistake.
01:03:19It was up to us to correct that mistake one way or the other.
01:03:22Alan had to decide whether he wanted to become a man or she wanted to become a woman.
01:03:27Both were completely possible.
01:03:29Small bone, fair of complexion, his hair thin like a woman's, his body slim, hips slightly girlish.
01:03:39It 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.
01:03:46Alan decided to become a woman.
01:03:48This, after all the help I could give him, was only the beginning.
01:03:54During the following two years, he was to go through the tortures of the damned.
01:03:58But never was there a whimper from him, because he knew that at the end of it all, he would at last be that which he had always dreamed.
01:04:05Hundreds of hormone shots were injected into various parts of his body.
01:04:09Alan's face was worked on with plastic surgery to smooth out the female elements.
01:04:14Long, tedious hours of work.
01:04:18The big day, or the starting of many big days, for it was to take many.
01:04:25The series of operations are performed slowly and at intervals to prevent any unnecessary shock to the nervous system.
01:04:32Still, the hormone shots continue.
01:04:36Day after day, week after week, month after month.
01:04:40And even then, when the operation is over, the sex has changed, the shots must continue as long as Alan lives.
01:04:48Day after week, month after week.
01:04:54First, the breasts are brought out.
01:04:56The body of the woman within begins to appear now.
01:05:06Day after week, month after week, month after week, month after week, month after month.
01:05:40Then comes the major surgery, the removal of the man and the formation of the woman.
01:06:10Then comes the major surgery, the removal of the man and the formation of the woman.
01:06:40But in time, Alan is Anne, a very happy, lovely young lady that modern medicine and science has created almost as a Frankenstein monster.
01:07:06The newspapers heard of it and hit the story with their usual fullness.
01:07:11Papers had not gotten hold of the story.
01:07:12It would have gone untold, unnoticed as so many others in medical history.
01:07:17The sex change has been performed hundreds of times.
01:07:20However, right here in this particular sex switch, it's not the end.
01:07:24Acting the woman and being the woman are two entirely different things.
01:07:28Alan had all his life acted the part of the woman.
01:07:31Now he is that woman and must learn how it's done.
01:07:36Anne must learn how to do her own hair, how to make the correct styling for her facial contours.
01:07:42The proper walk must be adopted.
01:07:47A lady is a lady, whatever the case may be.
01:07:51Continuing my own psychiatric treatment, it was my duty now to explain to Anne the duty of a woman in her sex life.
01:07:58Alan, of course, had known the man's, but he was soon to realize he knew very little about a woman's.
01:08:04Yet, through it all, Anne loved every minute of it.
01:08:08Anne was indeed meant to be a woman.
01:08:11And now that the sex change had been completed, Anne was a very happy woman.
01:08:15And a woman who was eager to learn.
01:08:17And now was accepted by society.
01:08:20A woman born at the age of 24.
01:08:23In a world that for 24 years she had seen as a man.
01:08:27But a woman who now would, and was properly instructed in how to accept, a woman's world.
01:08:36Thus, this case, which has a happy ending, is due entirely to the corrections made by medical science.
01:08:41I've had several such cases.
01:08:43In fact, in my 20 years of practice, I've been prominent in seven.
01:08:47However, my colleagues have had hundreds.
01:08:49Then you believe that the Glenn of the first story should have the sex change?
01:08:53In Glenn's case, no.
01:08:54No, indeed.
01:08:55Glenn would never be happy with the sex change.
01:08:58The Alan of your story ended happy?
01:09:00I'll tell it to you exactly as I told it to them.
01:09:04Shortly after Glenn told Barbara of his love for girls' clothing, he started treatments with me.
01:09:09On the last treatment, both he and Barbara came to me.
01:09:13I told him the same story of Alan, Anne, as I've told it to you, Inspector.
01:09:18Anne was a pseudo-hermaphrodite.
01:09:20Even though one of the sexes was imperfect, she had the organs and the characteristics of both the male and female.
01:09:28Glenn's case is an entirely different type of case.
01:09:31Remember I said, no matter what the case, it's a different thing.
01:09:34A new problem to be looked into, then solved.
01:09:37A new challenge to the psychoanalysis.
01:09:40Glenn's body holds only one sex, that of the male.
01:09:43In all our talks, I've learned these pertinent facts.
01:09:48Glenn's father had no love for his son.
01:09:52His father wanted Glenn to be a football hero, or a baseball player,
01:09:57so that he could brag to his cronies down at the corner saloon as his cronies bragged to him about their own sons.
01:10:03Thus, the ruse of Glenn's fictitious character.
01:10:08He invented it when he could find no love from his mother and no love from his father.
01:10:12His mother had hated her own father.
01:10:14Glenn reminded her of her father.
01:10:17Therefore, she gave all her affection, love, and attention to her daughter.
01:10:21Glenn then decided also to become a daughter.
01:10:25Glenn, you can kill this fictitious character of yours any time you wish.
01:10:29For your happy ending, it's the only way.
01:10:31Then you think I can kill this second character by transferring her qualities to Barbara.
01:10:37Exactly.
01:10:38But as the author and his character, the elements must be right.
01:10:42It's up to you, Barbara.
01:10:43You must take the place, give the love, and accept the facts that Glenda has always accepted.
01:10:49If you love each other as you now believe you do,
01:10:52it'll be a hard job, but you'll enjoy doing the job.
01:10:55Should I let him continue to wear girls' clothing?
01:10:58Or should I put my foot down?
01:11:00If you put your foot down, you'd only go behind closed doors.
01:11:03Love is the only answer.
01:11:05Glenda must be transferred to you.
01:11:07Supposing Glenn never gets over wearing girls' clothing.
01:11:10Would it matter to you very much?
01:11:14I love Glenn.
01:11:15I'll do everything I can to make him happy.
01:11:19The end is only the beginning.
01:11:44Time passes.
01:11:47Soon, due to a happily married life, the remembrance of the psychiatric treatments,
01:11:53and Barbara's love and understanding, Glenda begins to disappear forever from Glenn.
01:11:59Glenn has found his mother, his little sister, his wife, and his Glenda all in one lovely package.
01:12:06Thus, Glenn's case has a happy conclusion.
01:12:11Therefore, two entirely different cases, handled in two entirely different ways, have a happy ending.
01:12:17Yeah, those two.
01:12:19But what of the hundreds of other less fortunate glens the world over?
01:12:24Yes.
01:12:52Oh, snips and snails and puppy dog tails.
01:13:04Oh, snips and snails and puppy dog tails.
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01:13:29Almost ain't made so happy.
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01:13:39Look at the heart of us.
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01:13:41¶¶
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