Transvestia

specific reproductive activity--the reproduction center we might call it. The rest of the brain which deals with all the other aspects of living is apparently much the same (in a baby that is) in males or females on the basis of current knowledge at least.

Furthermore it is biologically highly unlikely that a condition could exist where "there is only enough to----" do anything. Hormones circulate in the blood which in turn bathes everything in the body and while the concentration of some substance might be too low to bring about its usual effect (see below) what was present could not be used up preferentially in one area up to the proper amount leaving other areas with inadequate amounts. Thus for these two reasons it is an entirely unwarrented conclusion that there would be left, "some female areas" which would "link up to show a certain amount of autonomy or 'personality'". Her further examples of fetishism, TV and TS being due to the quantity of "female area" involved is a twisting and stretch- ing of the known facts and reasonable speculations based on them, far far into left field in an attempt to bolster the inevitability of "NATURE" in her argu- ment. While I further agree with her that TVs (FPs really) have the greatest feelings of duality and that fetishists and TSs do not, this observation neither derives support from any of the known ana- tomical, physiological or neurological facts report- ed here nor does it serve to confirm any speculations about supposedly "unmasculinized" areas of the brain.

The sense of duality, it might be pointed out here is, with few exceptions, and Sheila may be one of them, something that does not precede the first experiences in cross dressing. Young boys may yearn to be girls 100% and pray for such a change, this is commonplace, but they do not have feelings of being both a boy and a girl and then set out to cross dress in order to give the girl side "equal time". On the contrary the pattern usually begins in a stric-

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