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Examples: 1. The older sister of our patient "A" was favored by both parents, and recommended as an example to her brother, who soon started to imitate her in her clothes and her manners. 2. The preferential treat- ment of girls in the orphanage was a precipitating fac- tor in the feminine identification and transvestism of our patient "B". 3. Frank, a 6 year old boy, "began to dress in female garb, disliked boys and played only with girls. He complained that his mother liked his sister more than himself," and "said he would rather be a Girl."

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Close visual contact with a female (usually the mother or a sister) may lead to "a state of primary ident- ification" with her. An exhibitionistic exposure of this female figure is frequent, though rearely even suspected. As illustrations: 1. There are strong indications that the mothers of three little boys studied by Friend and his colleagues (39), exposed themselves in front of their his led, on the one hand, to transvestite tend- encies in these boys, on the other hand to caricaturizing the phallic female in their play activities. 2. Billy, a sex year old boy "expressed a desire to have breasts like his mother and to urinate like her. He wanted to be a girl and have his penis taken off". Without assum- ing some exhibitionistic activity on the part of his mother it would be impossible to account for this know- ledge of anatomy of female sexual organs. 3. Maternal exhibitionistic behavior was also evident in some other boys studies by Bender and Paster. For instance, Aber- dine boasted that "while sleeping in his foster-parents bedroom he often explored his mother's breasts and gen- italia". Soon he developed transvestite trends and homosexual trends; he showed a preference to dress as a girl, played only with girls and dolls, imitated ac- tresses, his gestures and voice were deliberately effem- inate and he wanted to be a girl. He became fond of a boy and called him "my husband". 4. Stanly, aged 10 openly "admitted that his mother stimulated him sexually." Often a similar exhibitionistic role may be played by "a sister, relatively close in age" as it occurred in