ABSTRACT
Transvestism, in the widest sense of the term, must be regarded as a symptom that may appear in a number of conditions, and only by thorough clinical analysis it is possible to distinguish between the various states. There remains, then, the category of transvestic men in whom the desire is so dominant as to justify the designation ‘genuine transvestism’ or ‘psychic hermaphrodism’; there may be reason to reserve the term eonism for the group. Attraction to normal, heterosexual men is no infrequent phenomenon, but the genuine transvestite is disgusted by relationship with homosexual men. Attraction toward the female sex is generally on a higher plane, but only rarely, and possibly never, is such attraction of a direct erotic nature. Genuine transvestism is certainly an exceedingly rare affection, although it may occur more frequently than generally supposed. A case of genuine transvestism in a young man is reported. His psyche was definitely, and his physical appearance moderately, feminine.
