boy's. She does not carry an umbrella or sunshade, and walks out
alone, refusing the company of men; or she is accompanied by a
woman, as she prefers, offering her arm and carrying the other
hand at her waist, with the air of a fine gentleman. In a
carriage her bearing is peculiar and unlike that habitual with
women. Seated in the middle of the double seat, her knees being
crossed or else the legs well separated, with a virile air and
careless easy movements she turns her head in every direction,
finding an acquaintance here and there with her eye, saluting men
and women with a large gesture of the hand as a business man
would. In conversation her pose is similar; she gesticulates
much, is vivacious in speech, with much power of mimicry, and
while talking she arches the inner angles of her eyebrow, making
vertical wrinkles at the center of her forehead. Her laugh is
open and explosive and uncovers her white rows of teeth. With men
she is on terms of careless equality." ("Inversione congenita
dell'istinto sessuale in una donna," _L'Anomalo_, February,
1889.)

"The inverted woman," Hirschfeld truly remarks (_Die
Homosexualitaet_, p. 158), "is more full of life, of enterprise,
of practical energy, more aggressive, more heroic, more apt for
adventure, than either the heterosexual woman or the homosexual
man." Sometimes, he adds, her mannishness may approach reckless
brutality, and her courage becomes rashness. This author
observes, however, in another place (p. 272) that, in addition to
this group of inverted women with masculine traits there is
another group, "not less large," of equally inverted women who
are outwardly as thoroughly feminine as are normal women. This is
not an observation which I am able to confirm. It appears to me
that the great majority of inverted women possess some masculine
or boyish traits, even though only as slight as those which may
occasionally be revealed by normal women. Extreme femininity, in
my observation, is much more likely to be found in bisexual than
in homosexual women, just as extreme masculinity is much more
likely to be found in bisexual than in homosexual men.

While inverted women frequently, though not always, convey an impression
of mannishness or boyishness, there are no invariable anatomical
characteristics associated with this impressio