[Illustration: The Author—a Modern Living Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue, “Hermaphroditos” (Photo by Dr. A. W. Herzog) ] The Female-Impersonators A sequel to the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE and an account of some of the author’s experiences during his six years’ career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York’s Underworld; together with the life stories of androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology. BY RALPH WERTHER—JENNIE JUNE (“EARL LIND”) Author also of THE RIDDLE OF THE UNDERWORLD EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION BY ALFRED W. HERZOG, Ph.B., A.M., M.D. Member of the New York and the New Jersey Bar Editor of the _Medico-Legal Journal_ NEW YORK THE MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL 1922 Copyright, 1922 By ALFRED W. HERZOG First edition, 1,000 copies. Sold only to physicians, lawyers, clergymen, teachers, writers, psychologists, sociologists, and legislators; by Medico-Legal Journal, 123 West 83d Street, New York City. This is copy Number ................. and is sold to .............................................. Inscribed to NATURE’S STEP-CHILDREN—the sexually abnormal by birth—in the hope that their lives may be rendered more tolerable through the author’s efforts to enlighten thinking men on these step-children’s psychology and life experience. “But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. “Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come?”—Isaiah XLII, v. 22, 23. CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION, by Dr. Alfred W. Herzog vii PART ONE: THE THIRD SEX I. How This Book Came to Be Written 1 II. The Place of the Androgyne in the Male Sex Scale 7 III. Androgynes of Mythology and History 25 IV. Man Is a Passional, Rather Than a Rational, Being 39 PART TWO: HOW THE AUTHOR CAME TO BE A FEMALE-IMPERSONATOR I. Reveries Suggested by My Infancy 53 II. School Days 63