mechanism is buried too deeply in our animal selves. Certain stimuli offered by the female set off certain instinctive responses of a physio- logical nature which bring about the erectile reaction. And whereas hu- mans who have a cerebral cortex (unlike animals) are able to embroider, improve and add to the sexual stimulus-response pattern they are unable to make it work intellectually if it has been turned off by some psycho- logical trauma. Thus the TV who is very intense and involved in his feminine identification may very well be able to add markedly to his emotional satisfaction in the act of intercourse by such fantasies, but he is not justified in saying that erection, penetration and orgasm were only possible because of the fantasy. This possibility is not under his voluntary control however much he may rationalize the situation to per- suade himself that such is the case. Rationality never beats down biology it can only modify it to various degrees. So I reject the statements of such people as being any "proof" of their inherent femaleness—“I am just a poor female trapped in a male body.” Bologna! They are male per- sons who are fascinated by, envious of and seeking to emulate the total gender pattern of the woman and who visualize her sexual position as a by-product of her gender just the same as they think of the gender as being an essential aspect of her sex. Both of these attitudes are wrong and both stem from a lack of understanding that in the human species gender behavior, although originally assigned because of the observed anatomy of the baby is a high sophisticated life style that is constructed ON sex but not BY sex.

One further thing ought to be said here about those seeking surgery regardless of whether they are truly TSs or members of one of the three classes of pseudo TSs. It is part of the pain of being a human be- ing that we develop personality quirks, behavior patterns, and attitudes which are the end results of psychological and sociological traumas of one type or another occurring at various times during our lives. We can for conversational purposes lump these all together under the heading of neuroses. When one is neurotic in one way or another it interferes to various degrees with comfortable and happy adjustments to life's problems. The neurosis is a constant "hang-up" or "monkey on our back" that stays with us all the time. Often we are aware of it to a degree and would like to escape from it (more often "them") in some way in the hopes that our lives would be happier, more productive and more satisfying. But one does not "escape" from a neurosis. One can only face it, examine it, learn its nature and causes and then seek (alone or with counselling) to remove it through destroying its usually deeply buried causes and to modify or eliminate its symptoms. Un- happily the idea of changing sex and gender appeals to some people

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