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vestite" patients. Unfortunately, he did not class- ify them as we do into TV and TS; there is some rea- son to believe the latter outnumbered the TVs, as transexualism is his specialty. His results showed no less than 10 abnormal and 2 borderline traces! This is far above the normal population rate, indi- cating that some unusual activity was taking place in the brain; yet none of these people had any evi- dence of epilepsy. In addition, he found that one of the patients' TV behavior had started several years after a severe cerebral concussion; then he went from fetishist to advanced TV in two years. This patient showed a considerable EEG anomaly, and was treated with anti-convulsant drugs. During the period of drug treatment he felt no desire to dress. Treatment had to be stopped because of skin rashes and gastro-intestianl disturbances, and the TV re- turned full force; he then refused to try another form of treatment (International Journal of Neuro- psychiatry, p 567-73, Nov.-Dec. 1965).

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11) Combining these various results, one make out a fairly well supported theory as follows: During the period immediately before or after birth, the TV gets only enough male hormone to masculinise part of his brain, leaving female areas. These areas remain dormant during his first 8 to 12 years, but under the influence of approaching puberty, become stimulated into periodic activity, and link up to show a certain amount of autonomy or "personality". A small area might well lead to fetishism, a larger portion to TV, and a majority of such areas to TS. This would explain my observation, supported by 75 written answers, that true Eonists (the mid-group TVs) who dress with strong compulsiveness but have little interest in the conversion operation are those who have the strongest feeling of duality. The fet- ishists and transexuals have NO such feelings, and the borderline cases towards each extreme have a limited sense of duality. The fact that Walinder's cases showed only 46% of abnormal and borderline traces would represent that proportion of TVs among