"A predominantly masculine type to the external genitals, and even the presence of s, is compatible with a feminine habitus of body or with entirely feminine feelings and instincts, or with both. Thus was brought up as a girl until the age of 22, when she was pronounced a male by a court of law because possessed of a complete male genital apparatus—, though small and ; with a testicle in the right lobe, the left testicle resting in the and apparently in fatty degeneration; distended by sperm, which, however, contained no spermatozoids; rudimentary . The misinterpretation of sex had been due to presence of a central cleft in the scrotum, simulating a and terminating in a cul-de-sac six and a half centimetres deep. The rectification of this mistake filled the subject with such despair that he committed suicide."
Mary Putnam Jacobi

January 1, 1970

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