Autobiography of an Androgyne
1918
Jennie June
New York : Medico-Legal Journal
American
Memoir
259pp
Queer Theory, Queer Experience, Transgender, Sex Workers
Your author's [...] case is also unusual because of the strange combination of appetencies in one individual: the instincts of the fairie, the thirst for knowledge of the savant, the yearning after God and holiness of life of the zealot, and the impulse toward altruism of the missionary.
Summary
Discusses the author’s experience with gender, sexuality, and identity. Written with advocacy in mind: June founded the Cercle Hermaphroditos, the first transgender advocacy organization, and dedicated her book to those “sexually abnormal by birth—in the hope that their lives may be rendered more tolerable.”
More Info
The author is also known as Earl Lind and Ralph Werther.
The book as two sequels: Riddle of the Underworld (1921) and The Female-Impersonators (1922)
The text was edited by Alfred Z. Herzog. Some vulgarties are censored in latin.
Content & Trigger Warnings
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RAPE: partially censored in Latin
SUICIDAL THOUGHTS
ASSAULT
