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Such view is not generally acceptable. Although there is no doubt that there are some pseudo-transvestites of this type, it would be a misnomer to apply to them the term "transvestite", by which a strictly defined sexual devia- tion.is known and named.

(((Ed. Note: How in the world he can say that trans- vestism is "strictly defined" when the preceeding pages are full of the ideas of various authors as to what it is, what causes it etc. Seems to me the med. profession is as confused as many TVs themselves. Moreover, if he wants to be "strict" about it, the word really covers anybody that likes to cross dress for any reason, not just for the particular reasons that certain authors wish to base it on. Lastly, I'll give him an argument about using the term "sex- ual deviation" for it at all. There are too many TVs whose sexual orientation and life is strictly heterosexual and ordinary so far as object, position and method are concerned. The medical profession should learn to distinguish between sex (which can either refer to anatomy or to the act of intercourse) and gender which means "kind or sort" (Webster) and which should refer to the type of personality, i.e. masculine or feminine. A person of either sex could thus have qualities of either gender. As noted earlier "Janett Thompson" is the pen name of rather well known TV, and naturally too much attention should not be paid to the ideas of a person who has only lived with the problem for 25 years or more, what could she know about the problem? She probably knows more TVs than any author cited in this article with the exception of Hirschfeld and possibly Ellis, and she is in a position and able enough to make observa- tions that are just as valid if not more so than some of the authors cited herein who have drawn their con- clusions from cases who may be transvestites by def- inition of cross-dressing, but who in many instances are suffering under a variety of other complications which are unrelated to TVism and tend to obscure the nature of the latter. In view of all the discussion