Transvestia

psychosocial forces cause TVism would be to take a group of male babies and bring them up in various ways which might be expected to make TVs of them. Obviously such an experiment could not be done so direct PROOF can never be elicited. We have to judge the effect of various factors by observing what has happened under other circumstances.

Let me call to Sheila's attention the case of the pseudohermaphroditic male who was mistaken for a female at birth and thereafter raised as a girl till maturity. Having organized "her" whole life around the feminine gender role "she" is then in- formed that "she" is really a male and must make the switch. "She" does so and tries to become an ade- quate "he". But not having learned the aggressive masculine role he is not successful at it and longs for the days when "she" was a girl and so much wasn't expected of her. She then begins to dress as a girl on occasion. Is this person a TV? If so was he/she "neurologically determined" or was it a result of an inaccurate assessment of true sex that lead her to be psychologically and socially conditioned to the more passive, domestic, feminine role? Would she have a dual personality? Would it be the same as that in some FPs?

Sheila makes mistakes in reading too. I mis- read male for female in discussing the hormone ex- periments. Sheila can't see quotation marks! On page 80 of #44 I did not say that "I don't care...' and it was not irresponsible. I was making a general, impersonal, characteristic and hypothetical statement and it was set off by quotation marks to indicate that. I should think that with all the writing, re- search, argument and effort I have gone into in the last 7 years that it would be evident that I do care and care more than anyone else not even exceptihg Sheila--at least I've been doing something about it for a longer time.

As for doing research on causes, I am in favor