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Medical Test--Continued

Only in unusual cases, even now, will a doctor ad- vise a grown patient to "change sex," to change from one way of life to another. But in some cases where this is truly necessary, the effects may be dramatic. Take the case of the Buffalo, N. Y. woman, whom we will call "Betty"

"Betty" was "Bob". Bob was one of 6 boys, in casual sexual appearance. But from childhood Bob preferred to play with girls and girl's toys and hated boy's rough- .housing. Other children called him a 'sissy' when he wore nail polish. Bob tried hard to grow up as a man. He grew to normal height but his arms and legs remained slim and womanly. His breasts developed only slightly beyond a man's spareness, but otherwise his general shape was more female than male--wide hips, for example, narrow shoulders. His voice never became deep. People would sometimes pass him and ask, "Is that a boy or a girl:"

Bob took a business course and found men's fobs, but feminine and nervous, lost one after another. Try- ing further to be manly, he even got married. The mar- riage was a failure in every way except one. Bob married an over-weight, unattractive girl, and remade her--much like Pygmalion, the ancient Greek who made Galatea (and inspired Shaw's "Pygmalion" which has become "My Fair Lady".) Bob made his Galatea into the slim, well dressed, becommingly made up female he desired to be.

The more he tried to be manly, the sicker and more depressed he became. Physically and emotionally ill, dis- couraged and bewildered, he twice tried suicide. He went to several doctors. At the most, they gave him male sex hormones to try in tincrease his masculinity. At the most these made the previously beardless Bob sprout fuzz.

Some months ago, however, he was referred to the new Buffalo institution the Jewish Community Service Psych- iatric Clinic. Dr. Samuel Yochelson of this non-denom- inational center says, "I was impressed by Bob's femininity