“I have been doomed to be a girl who must pass her earthly existence in a male body. How dreadful it is to a young woman to have a slight growth of hair on lip or cheeks ! Only one mark of the male ! How much more dreadful for a young woman to possess almost all the male anatomy as I do ! How I have bewailed my fate!” SadnessAgonyTransgenderTransAnatomyGender DysphoriaDysphoriaTrans WomenTransfemininity Book:Autobiography of an Androgyne Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne
“I trust that the publication of my life story will contribute to a correct estimate of androgvnism on the part of scientists, the molders of public opinion, and the lawmakers, and to a more kindly treatment by society of those born with this curse. It is only expressing half the truth to say that they are more to be pitied than scorned. They are wholly to be pitied.” PoliticsUnderstandingPityTransgenderTransGender InequalityTransphobiaGender DysphoriaAndrogynyTransgenderism Book:Autobiography of an Androgyne Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne
“How can one explain why a six-year-old boy (the author) should class himself as a girl, give himself a girl’s name, fight against his parents’ course of bringing him up as a boy, and grieve because he could not be brought up as a girl, except on the assumption that the cells of his brain were identical with the cells of a girl’s brain and fundamentally different from those of a normal boy?” FemininityTransgenderTransGender IdentityTransgender IssuesTransgenderismTransgender WomenBiological SexTrans WomanPsychical Book:Autobiography of an Androgyne Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne
“Practically it is all right, but medico-legally it is wrong, to make the genitals the universal criterion in the determination of sex. Medico-legally, sex should be determined by the psychical constitution rather than by the physical form. There are thousands of physical females who feel themselves to be men and have the mental traits of men, and there are thousands of physical males who feel themselves to be women and have the mental traits of a woman. Should any blame be attached to such individuals when they conduct themselves according to their psychical sex?” IdentityGenderTransgenderTransGender IdentityDualismTranssexualBiological SexPsychical Book:Autobiography of an Androgyne Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne