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and Riolan describe similar cases. There 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.
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