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and her husband were arrested on "liquor charges" (in time of prohibition in the USA). In jail there arose some doubts regarding the sex of Mrs. F. Consequently

she was medically examined by both authors who found that she was an anatomically normal male.

(((ED NOTE: In view of what was said earlier it is somewhat amazing that a "poor imitation" or a "carica- ture" of a woman could successfully be a wife for 5 years and be exposed to the critical appraisal of a lot of other young wives. Obviously the authors opin- ion is contradicted by his own example.)))

Female Impersonators of Males.

1. A "Captain Tweed" from a transatlantic ship was admitted, acutely ill, into the Sailor's Home on Staten Island in 1904. During the night he cut his throat. On post-mortem he was found to be a normal female. 2. A head waiter in a principal restaurant in Czernowitz was suddenly taken ill one evening in 1909. He refused to see a doctor, and in the night poisoned himself. On post mortem he was found to be a female. 3. In the "Daily Express" (21) of October 1951, there is the "Story of a womah, who" (at the age of 53) "changed her sex and her name, and married a woman. 11 After her death 22 years later the question of her sex was brought to High Court by "his" widow because of a trust. 4. The "Daily Mail" (22) of March 1958, reported the story of "Old Chris Williams, the British Legion stalwart, the war-time Home Guardsman, the week-end darts player in the local pub", who for 20 years lived in a small village in Berkshire, where everybody knew him, and who on post-mortem was found to be a woman. "The truth came out after 73 year old Chris died of a perforated ulcer in the Royal Berk- shire Hospital, Reading, last week."

Such cases confirm Hirschfeld's view that, "many male and female transvestites...succeed in maintaining their adopted role unmolested throughout their whole lives. and their correst sex is only discovered after death, some- times under very peculiar circumstances.