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Ann Arbor, Michigan-- Oh, it's a fine thing for young fellows to rush merrily about town leaving clouds of mascara in their wake, tiaras glittering brilliantly in the morning sun. But what when evening falls and the hair grays, the flesh wrinkles, the boobs sag? The transgendered may defy the dictates of biological sex, but they are slaves to time like anyone else (though a little rouge and eyeliner applied just so can take decades off a girl's face!). The question du jour is aging: how do crossdressers, transsexuals, the intersexed, and other varieties of "T" do it? That is the quarry of a new study sponsored by the U of Michigan. "The International Longitudinal Transsexual and Transgender Aging Research Project is an attempt to address the life-course needs of the transgender community," explains Dr. Tarynn M. Witten, whose name has a whiff of gender-bent to it, no? The hope is to assemble an assortment of transgendered people of all classes and cultures from around the world. The study is anonymous and confidential. For an initial questionnaire, or if you know how to get transfolk involved from distant lands, phone Dr. Witten at 313-936-2102, e-mail wittenm@umich.edu, browse over to www-personal. umich.edu/~wittenm, or snail-mail the ILTTAR Project, U of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.