ABSTRACT
The transvestite does not often wish to stop being a transvestite. He would like society to change so that he would be safe; this not having happened, he will occasionally seek out a psychiatrist to learn how to avoid the fear, shame, and guilt produced by society’s attitudes. Although he may ask the psychiatrist to cure him of the transvestism, what he is really asking is to be cured of his pain. He generally does not consider his transvestism to be painful. To a lesser degree, they may occur in the normal development of children and adolescents and in the treatment of some effeminate men, whether practicing homosexuals or not. The transsexual, unlike the transvestite, does not wish to remain a male,† but wishes to have his body changed so that he becomes as completely female as medical techniques can contrive.
