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of constitutional explanation for the TRUE TRANSEXUAL (I underline true because there are too many mis- guided TVs and HSS posing erroneously as TSs) but I don't feel that current work by Walinder or anyone else really pins anything down. After all, there must be some considerable differences between Pad- erwski and Rembrandt on the one hand and an ordinary non-musical and non-artistic man on the other. But I greatly doubt that even if a different EEG pattern was to be found between the artist-musician and the ordinary man that anyone could say that Paderwski or Rembrandt was a great musician or artist BECAUSE of whatever structure or activity gave rise to the dif- ferent pattern. It is just as reasonable to suppose that the training and experience, the sensitivity and perceptiveness and greater emotional involvment that characterizes a great musician, artist AND, I might add, a true FP, gives rise to various types. of brain function and activity that in turn cause the specific EEG patterns. Again I reject this work at least in its present form, as proving much of anything about TVism.

8) and 11) I omit discussing these at this point for consideration in my own position statement which follows.

12) Sheila says, "there will appear to be a corr- elation (of TV) with psychology and sociology". This is as gratuitous a statement as I think I have ever read. In the face of what must, to nearly everyone but her, be a phenomenon simply reeking of psychology and sociology, she apparently is what might be called a "cerebro-neural fatalist". In other words, regardless of what other effects the social and psychological upbringing and environment of the individual may have been his fate was pre- determined by his "cerebro-neural" make up. Any other effects only "appear" to be related--they really aren't. I always felt that psychiatrists were wasting time trying to readjust TVs but now I know why they have little or no success. They are

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