# The Female-Impersonators

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.
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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.
ILLUSTRATIONS *****
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* I.The Author—A Modern Living Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue, "Hermaphroditos" (Photo by Dr. A. W. Herzog)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Frontispiece
* II.Ancient Greek Statue of an Androgyne, Called "Hermaphroditos," Now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................25
* III.Alexander the Great—An Androgyne of the Mild Type................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................31
* IV.Julius Cæsar—An Androgyne of the Mild Type................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................31
* V.Raphael—the Most Gifted Ultra-Androgyne the World Has Known................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33
* VI.The "Fairie Boy" Ready to Set Out on Life's Journey................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................53
* VII.My Garden of Gethsemane................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................78
* VIII.Front View of Author at Thirty-three (Photo by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................82
* IX.Rear view of Author at Thirty-three (Photo by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................89
* X.Fourteenth Street Rialto, Stamping-Ground of the Hermaphroditoi................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................105
* XI.Stuyvesant Square, One of Jennie June's Stamping Grounds................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................105
* XII.Neighborhood Where Harvey Green Thought He "Finished" Jennie June................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................140
* XIII.The Author at Thirty-four (Amateur photo)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................164
* XIV.Bowery, in the Nineteenth Century America's Main Red-Light Street, and Stamping-Ground of Frank-Eunice, Angelo-Phyllis and Ralph Werther-Jennie June................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................169
* XV.Michelangelo's Adam................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................216
* XVI.Whitestone Railroad Station ("Holy Ground")................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................271, 272, 273
* XVII."The Boy of the Piave" (America's gift to Italy in 1921)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................277
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