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(((Ed. Note: To save space these three cases are summar ized but printed in toto.

...Case 1 A female homosexual living as a male with an- other female had her breasts removed as a first step in a complete transformation. She did not go further and tried to achieve male status thru legal action.

.....Case 2. A 49 yr. old soldier, married and with children amputated his own penis. He lost desire to go further and remaineda "permanent partial TV" wearing female pants inside his soldier's uniform.

.....Case 3. Patient amputated one of his own testicles, but did not wish to go further. Still wore female attire on oc- casion and used to go for long walks alone and as a female.

MISCELLANEOUS

AGE OF ONSET OF TRANSVESTISM

Although the patient is seen by a doctor for the first time usually in his late adolexcence or early adulthood the beginning of his transvestite tendencies is to be sought in his early childhood. There is a general agreement on this point. Anthropologists (e.g. Mead, Ford and Beach 34), medical men and psychoanalysts alike, date the origin of transvestite trends from early childhood.

Friend was the only writer to witness the development of a case of transvestism, so to say in the "nascent state", oc- curring before the phallic period. Bender and Paster had the opportunity of studying a group of homosexual children, whose average age was just over 8 years. In many of them trans- vestite trends were already well established, which suggest- ed that they began at a much earlier age.

(((ED. NOTE: Once again I take exception to the implied equivalence between homosexuality and TVism as implied in the preceeding paragraph. This statement would be in place in an article on homosexuality in which the symtom of cross dressing was observed, but it is definitely out of place in an article on TVism, because homosexuality is not a symptom that may occur in a TV, it is a seperate entity entirely and a more basic and serious one than TV. Psych- iatry seems to operate on the principle of the syllogism-