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treatment and other neurophathological events. the other hand I don't regard TVs as suffering from brain damage.

The sense of ones identity, self, and what one is, believes in, stands for and feels like is a very tenuous phenomenon, as intangible and undefineable as life itself. It is the end product of all the experiences one has with himself and with the world with which he interacts since this is what builds a personality. And personality itself is, in a sense, only the outer, visible manifestation of the indivi- dual's own view of himself, i.e. his sense of ident- ity--"who and what am I". That you can upset this delicately balanced organization by violent chemical or physical means or by serious disease conditions is to be expected. The fact that the results of such traumas sometimes appear as visible gender role disturbances such as femme dressing is no proof of anything, least of all that "TVs can be made.

It should also be pointed out as in my rebuttal of paragraph 1), that the statement, "no evidence exists for any TV tendency prior----etc." really only means that no one was aware of any overt mani- festations of cross dressing prior to the event in question. Most TVs have long histories of "no evidence exists". In my case it was 25 years be- fore any "evidence" was presented to anyone other than myself. So this statement is manufactured to support the position being developed but has only negative value.

5) Now down to the all-purpose rat. Consider the last part of the paragraph first--about shots "near" but not "in" the critical area leading to alterna- ting behaviour. The supposed relationship to a TV's alternating behaviour is entirely gratuitous on Sheila's part and is of no significance whatsoever. It would be predictable that a resevoir of some stim- ulating chemical near some active site would have to diffuse through the tissue to get to the active site

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