Television: Confession

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Then, while Kahler toyed with the top button of the prison uniform, Wyatt brought on two counselors. Said Methodist Minister Walter Underwood: "The church does not condemn or accuse [transvestites]. Rather, religion offers its sympathy, its help, its counsel." Said Psychiatrist Dr. John C. Montgomery: "This is a condition that can be helped if it can be gotten to soon enough. He's been trying to be like his mother all his life. Physically, organically, there's no reason in the world why this should be. He has all the attributes of the male—except for the fact that he doesn't want to be." The psychiatrist agreed with Wyatt that the "problem can be laid at the parents' doorstep."

As Kahler went back to jail to finish his sentence for vagrancy, calls flooded in to WFAA's switchboard. "It was a disgrace," said the most violent objector. But the calls ran five to one in favor of the show.

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