MEMBERSHIP IN TRI-ESS AND TAU-CHI
We invite anyone who meets the membership requirements of Tri-Ess and Tau Chi to join our growing and exciting organization. Please browse our complete web home and Tri-Ess web site (www.tri-ess.org) and make your decision to apply for membership. After you review the Bylaws and Policies in the Bylaws and Procedures section, complete the membership application, sign the Tau Chi Pledge, and are screened and pay the annual Tri-Ess and Tau Chi membership dues, you will be a full member. Non-voting members, as defined in the Bylaws, may also join. Dues and the meeting fees can be paid by check or cash.
TRI-ESS is the parent organization of Tau Chi and other nationwide chapters. With your Tri-Ess membership, you receive the very excellent quarterly Mirror and an optional listing in the Tri-Ess Directory, If your wife or significant other joins Tri-Ess, she will receive the quarterly Sweetheart Connection for wives and significant others. Annually Tri-Ess holds a national convention, Holiday Enfemme, in a different city each year. SPICE, Spouses and Partners International Conference for Education, sponsors a non-dressing conference for spouses and their partners in a different location each year. Membership in Tri-Ess is mandatory before you can be a member of Tau Chi. We have now combined the membership with one application which follows below. Complete and send the Application with The Pledge to Tau Chi, PO BPX 980638, Houston, TX 77098-0638. You may also call 713-349-8969.
TAU CHI is the Houston area chapter of Tri-Ess. Meetings are held monthly at different locations in the Houston area with a variety of stimulating and exciting programs and activities. Members may come to the regular meetings enfemme or in "drab". Several times each year "Elegant Ladies Night Out" events are scheduled at local theatres, restaurants and other public places. On the night before the regular monthly meeting, Boy R Us is held at various locations. Boys R Us is a voluntary meeting each month where members meet at restaurants or other activities for the purpose of enriching their masculine lives dressed "enhomme".
DETACH AND MAIL TO TAU CHI
THE TAU CHI PLEDGE (Read and sign as a part of the Tri-Ess and Tau Chi Application)
Membership Pledge Tau Chi Chapter - Tri-Ess - Complete and send in to the address below
__________I understand that Tau Chi is a member chapter of Tri-Ess, and as such is a local gathering of Tri-Ess members. I pledge to maintain my membership in Tri-Ess as long as I expect to be a member of Tau Chi Chapter.
__________I understand the need to protect the security and confidentiality of my fellow members, and that anyone who violates this security will be permanently expelled from Tau Chi hapter at the first such offense. I am in complete agreement with this policy.
__________ I understand that inappropriate sexual behavior will not be tolerated, and will result in permanent expulsion at the first offense. I agree to abide by this policy.
__________I understand that the punishment for speech, behavior or dress offensive to wives is expulsion at the first offense. This specifically includes promotion of transsexualism. agree completely with this policy.
__________I understand the "no drugs," “no weapons,” and modified "no alcohol" policy of Tau Chi Chapter, and agree to abide by it.
__________I understand that as a family-oriented support group, Tau Chi Chapter welcomes children at its meetings. The presence of children will not bother me.
__________I understand that the dress standard for Tau Chi Chapter is ladylike or gentlemanly attire. I agree to abide by this standard.
__________I agree to abide by the policies of our sympathetic businesses.
__________I will not be influenced by anti-Tri-Ess trash talk on the Internet and other media. In turn, I will not trash other gender-gifted persons or organizations.
__________I pledge that if I ever decide to pursue an identity other than that of “heterosexual crossdresser,” I will convert my membership to “Friends of Tri-Ess” status.
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(Signature of Applicant)
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(Signature of Spouse or Partner)
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(Signature of Orientation Officer)
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(Please initial each item above and sign where indicated.)
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION For TRI-ESS AND TAU CHI
Please check the appropriate statements: ___ I am - OR ___ I am not - over eighteen (18) years of age. ___
I am -, OR ___ I am not - A CROSSDRESSER; - defined as an individual, typically a heterosexual male, who occasionally chooses to make a social role presentation considered appropriate for persons of the opposite genetic sex, for the purpose of personal expression, without the intention of entering a program leading to sex reassignment surgery, and without attempting to attract a partner of the same genetic sex. Note: your femme signature is satisfactory.
Date:______________________ Signature:_____________________________
Crossdresser Spouse/Partner*
Crossgender name_________________________ Preferred name______________________________
Mailing name______________________________ Mailing name________________________________
Mailing address____________________________ Mailing address______________________________
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E-Mail address (optional)_____________________ E-Mail address (optional)______________________
Telephone (optional)________________________ Telephone (optional)__________________________
Ask for__________________________________ Ask For____________________________________
If reinstating your membership, provide previous membership number(s), if known:__________
* Joining as part of a Couple's membership_____ , or as an independent Single member_____
Check your membership option: FEES EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2004
Single: __ Lifetime, $550; __ Sustaining, 2 years, $160; __ Sustaining, 1 year, $96
__ Regular, 2 years, $70; __ Regular,1 year, $42
Couple: __ Lifetime, $750; __ Sustaining, 2 years, $200; __ Sustaining, 1 year, $120
__ Regular, 2 years, $95; __ Regular,1 year, $57
Additional Family Member (adult child or parent) living at same address: ___ $10
Adult Child of a Crossdresser: ___ $15 (Please provide contact information as per above.)
Friend of Tri-Ess: __ 1 year, $28 Friend of Tri-Ess (Vendor/Professional): __ 1 year, $40
Scholarship fund donation: __ Platinum $100; __ Gold $50; __ Silver $25; __ Bronze $10
Add $25 1 year or $42 2 years for individual membership in Tau Chi, $35 1 year and $59 2 years for family membership or $15 1 year and $25 2 years for Friends of Tau Chi membership. Make check or money order payable to “Tau Chi”. Total enclosed : $________
Please send by First Class Mail to: Tau Chi, PO Box 980638, Houston, TX 77098-0638
(No Certified or Registered Mail, please!)
FOR FULL MEMBERSHIP IN TAU CHI A SCREENING IS REQUIRED.