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[[File:Autobiography of an Androgyne - The Author—A Modern Living Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue of Hermaphroditos.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Jennie June]] in her autobiography, posing as "A Modern Living Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue of Hermaphroditos." 1918.]] | [[File:Autobiography of an Androgyne - The Author—A Modern Living Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue of Hermaphroditos.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Jennie June]] in her autobiography, posing as "A Modern Living Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue of Hermaphroditos." 1918.]] | ||
[[Jennie June]] was a Victorian and Edwardian era writer and activist for the rights of people who didn't conform to gender and sexual norms. | [[Jennie June]] was a Victorian and Edwardian era writer and activist for the rights of people who didn't conform to gender and sexual norms. He was one of the earliest [[transgender]] individuals to publish an autobiography in the United States.<ref name="Yale">{{Cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay/Pages/Archive/PNB9.html|title=Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale: Earl Lind 1874|date=n.d.|publisher=Yale University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604130335/http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay/Pages/Archive/PNB9.html|archive-date=4 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Earl_Lind_(Ralph_Werther-Jennie_June):_The_Riddle_of_the_Underworld,_1921|title=Earl Lind (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921|date=October 9, 2010|publisher=Out History|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627194013/http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Earl_Lind_(Ralph_Werther-Jennie_June):_The_Riddle_of_the_Underworld,_1921|archive-date=June 27, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref> June published his first autobiography, ''The Autobiography of an Androgyne'' in 1918, and his second ''The Female-Impersonators'' in 1922. June also wrote an unpublished third autobiography in 1921, which was discovered in 2010. June's goal in writing these books was to help create an accepting environment for young adults who don't conform to gender and sexual norms, because that was what he would have wanted for himself, and he wanted to prevent youth from committing suicide.<ref name="Meyerowitz 2010">Meyerowitz, J. "Thinking Sex With An Androgyne". ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' 17.1 (2010): 97–105. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref> June had formed the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, along with other androgynes who frequented Paresis Hall in New York City. The organization was formed in the hopes "to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution," and to show that it was natural to be gender and sex variant.<ref>Katz, Jonathan Ned. "Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found". ''Humanities and Social Sciences Online''. N.p., 10 October 2010. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref> | ||
*'''Born:''' 1874 - ? | *'''Born:''' 1874 - ? | ||
*'''Nationality:''' USA | *'''Nationality:''' USA | ||
*'''Pronouns:''' | *'''Pronouns:''' [[English neutral pronouns#he|he/him]], which he consistently used for himself in his own writing | ||
*'''Gender:''' Jennie June self-identified as a " | *'''Gender:''' Jennie June self-identified as a "[[androgyne]]", "[[history of nonbinary gender#1890s|invert]]", "[[history of nonbinary gender#1870s|urning]]," "bisexual" (in the sense of being both male and female), and "fairie," which were contemporary terms for gender and sexual variance. June wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of his practice of alternating between these two gender expressions. During his twenties, he transitioned by changing his name, and being castrated, both of which he had wanted from early childhood.<ref name="Meyerowitz 2010" /> | ||
*'''Profession:''' | *'''Profession:''' law clerk | ||
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