Jennie June published The Autobiography of an Androgyne in 1918, making her one of the first transgender Americans to publicize her story. Her goal was to make her trials well known and to rally the support of Americans to create an accepting environment for young adults who do not necessarily adhere to gender and sexual norms. June also wanted to prevent her younger counterparts from committing suicide.
Her memoir explains that she identifies as a third sex, calling herself an "androgyne," and includes many personal narratives and details about her sexual encounters, and includes her story of castration. The memoir describes in detail her sexual encounters and desires, but also contains pleas for understanding and acceptance of these "fairies." Earl Lind (also known as Ralph Werther and Jennie June) is also the author of The Female Impersonators, first published in 1922, and then republished in 2005, 2008, 2018 (the main cover), 2020, 2021, and 2022.
According to Wikipedia, Jennie June, also known as Ralph Werther and Earl Lind, (1874 - ?) was a Victorian and Edwardian era writer and activist for the rights of people who did not conform to gender and sexual norms. "Although June expressed a lifelong desire to be a woman, June consistently used he/him pronouns in reference to himself in his own writing. June wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of his practice of alternating between these two gender expressions. June wrote under the pseudonyms of Earl Lind and Ralph Werther, which are sometimes incorrectly mistaken for birth names. June's birth name and legal name have been considered lost to history and are not certain. Queer history researcher Channing Gerard Joseph claims that June was most likely the writer and journalist Mowry Saben (1870-1950), an early advocate for gender and sexual diversity."
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