ere is an old record of a similar creature, supposing herself to be a
male, who took a wife, but previously having had connection with a man,
the outcome of which was pregnancy, was shortly after marriage
delivered of a daughter. There is an account of a person in Germany
who, for the first thirty years of life, was regarded as feminine, and
being of loose morals became a mother. At a certain period she began to
feel a change in her sexual inclinations; she married and became the
father of a family. This is doubtless a distortion of the facts of the
case of Catherine or Charles Hoffman, born in 1824, and who was
considered a female until the age of forty. At puberty she had the
instincts of a woman, and cohabitated with a male lover for twenty
years. Her breasts were well formed and she menstruated at nineteen. At
the age of forty-six her sexual desires changed, and she attempted
coitus as a man, with such evident satisfaction that she married a
woman soon afterward. Fitch speaks of a house-servant with masculine
features and movements, aged twenty-eight, and 5 feet and 9 inches
tall, who was arrested by the police for violating the laws governing
prostitution. On examination, well-developed male and female organs of
generation were found. The labia majora were normal and flattened on
the anterior surface. The labia minora and hymen were absent. The
vagina was spacious and the woman had a profuse leukorrhea. She stated
that several years previously she gave birth to a normal child. In
place of a clitoris she had a penis which, in erection, measured 5 1/4
inches long and 3 5/8 inches in circumference. The glans penis and the
urethra were perfectly formed. The scrotum contained two testicles,
each about an inch long; the mons veneris was sparsely covered with
straight, black hair. She claimed functional ability with both sets of
genitalia, and said she experienced equal sexual gratification with
either. Semen issued from the penis, and every three weeks she had
scanty menstruation, which lasted but two days.

Beclard showed Marie-Madeline Lefort, nineteen years of age, 1 1/2
meters in height. Her mammae were well developed, her nipples erectile
and surrounded by a brown areola, from which issued several hairs. Her
feet were small, her pelvis large, and her thighs like those of a
woman. Projecting from the vulva was a body looking like a penis 7 cm.
long and slightly erectile at times; it was imperforate and had a
mobile p