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ject feels really to" belong to " the opposite sex, although | he has no delusion regarding his anatomical conformation." Battig also recognizes two types of transvestism: 1, an apparent type, "psychoreactive in origin," and 2, genuine transvestism, comparatively rare, based on "a constitutionall abnormality of an unequal foundation of physique, drives and psyche." always connected with a strong desire for the "change" of the inforn sex. Similarly Hamburger makes a distinction between: 1, transvestism as a symptom, thatmay accompany some other sexual deviation, and 2, "genuine transvestism, or psychic hermaphroditism," denoting "per- sons with the fundamental feeling... of the female person- ality in a male body.

(((ED.Note: More stupid language--this second type does not have the feeling of female personality as a result of being a transvestite. Rather the natural result of feeling ones self to be a feminine personality would be to want to dress to conform to the feeling. Such per- sons are transvestites not "genuinely" but incidental to being transsexuals.)))

Benjamin classifies transvestism into three types. The first class is called the "Prinipally psychogenic transvestites," in whom "the female component...is suffi- cient to allow an early psychological conditioning to form the transvestitic pattern in later life." This type of transvestite does not want to have his sex "changed". He wants the society to change its attitude and its restric- tive laws towards him. The second, "The intermediate type" more active than the first, "inclines at times towards homosexualism," The third type is "The somatopsychic trans sexual," where 'the conviction of these endocrine males that they are really females with faulty sex organs is pro- found and passionate."

This paper accepts Benjamin's basic classification; the further differentiation of transvestism into certain clinical sub-groups will follow in the secion on symptomatc).

Etiology: Theories of Organic Origin

Traumatic Theory: Hippocrates assumed that transvestism am the Skyths was caused by a repeated mechanical trauma to