Medicine: Change of Sex

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In a Baltimore jail recently was discovered a person with both male and female genitalia fairly well developed. That the prisoner had indulged in sex practices as both man and woman was apparent from the fact that it had two separate venereal diseases, one in the male apparatus, one in the female. Nevertheless, although true hermaphrodites harbor both ovarian and testicular tissue, none has been recorded who produced both ova and spermatozoa. Doctors scout the story from Canada of a woman who bore children, changed to a man, fathered more children.

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