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Jennie June - The Female-Impersonators

Full title: "The Female-Impersonators" by Jennie June.

"Originally published in 1922, this was a sequel to the Autobiography of an Androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as an instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld. It also includes the life stories of his androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology."

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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