Transvestia

uncommitted brain of a child become involved in the patterns characteristic of the individual's specific personality. There is no "circuit" for one's mascu- line expression any more than for the feminine one. One may so train himself (voluntarily or involuntar- ily) that over a long period the femmepersonality becomes real. Then various "circuits" are committed to "her" and "she" reacts in characteristic feminine (not female) ways while "he" has his own personality.

4) "TVs can be made!" Not so and certainly not from the "evidence" put foreward here. The symptom of cross dressing may come about after drastic events like those mentioned but this doesn't make a TV. This incidentally provides a good argument for the need of a distinct now word. Eonism only means "like d'Eon" and is not descriptive; TV merely says Cross- dresser in Latin with no indication of WHY. Femmi- phile - my coined word meaning "lover of the feminine"- surely indicates something quite different. Because shock therapy brings about the wearing of femme clothes it doesn't by any means imply that the patient has suddenly become enamoured of them nor more important- ly, that he feels the real special satisfaction that the rest of us feel in expressing our femmeself. He could not, in short, have a femme self just created "Bang" by a shock or surgery, or whatever. Person- alities are not made, they grow.

There are a number of cases in the psychiatric literature where cross dressing is listed as a symp- tom in relation to brain tumours, and other patho- logical conditions. Why is this sudden femmedressing really any different from the schizophrenic who poses and announces that he is Napoleon or various other historic characters? Are we to imagine that the shock treatment "TV" suddenly acquires all of the values that a regular femmiphile (TV) attaches to his femmeself just because he now wears dresses? I believe that such cases are merely the result of brain disturbance or damage brought on by relatively violent events such as tumors, encephalitis, shock