Published for physicians and lawyers rather than the public, this is one of the earliest first-person accounts of gender variance in English: a middle-class New Yorker’s double life as “Jennie June”, the underground of the Bowery resorts, the violence risked nightly, and a plea to be understood as born rather than depraved.
A rare and courageous document from the prehistory of queer and trans life. Download the free EPUB.