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Jennie June (autobiographer)
Jennie June (fl. 1895–1922) was a pseudonym of an American writer from the Victorian and Edwardian era known for advocating for the rights of people who did not conform to gender and sexual norms.
June was one of the earliest transgender individuals to publish an autobiography in the United States. Although June expressed a lifelong desire to be a woman, June consistently used he/him pronouns in reference to himself in his own writing. June wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of his practice of alternating between these two gender expressions.
He published his first autobiography, The Autobiography of an Androgyne, in 1918, and his second, The Female-Impersonators, in 1922. June also authored an unpublished third autobiography in 1921, which historians discovered in 2010. June's stated goal in writing these books was to help create what he would have wanted for himself: an accepting environment for young adults who do not conform to gender or sexual norms. He also wanted to prevent youth from committing suicide. Around 1895, June also created an organization for the rights of androgynes, together with others like himself; most if not all members were noted by June as being ultra-androgynes.
June also wrote under the pseudonyms of Earl Lind and Ralph Werther, which are sometimes incorrectly mistaken for birth names. June's birth name and legal name have been considered lost to history and are not certain. Queer history researcher Channing Gerard Joseph claims that June was most likely the writer and journalist Israel Mowry Saben (1870–1950), an early advocate for gender and sexual diversity.
Jennie June wrote that he was born into a Puritan family in 1874 in Connecticut. He was assigned male at birth. At the time of his birth, his mother was 28 (born circa 1846), and his father 32 (born circa 1842). June was their fourth child out of eleven children. His family was middle-class and wealthy.
June became very shy and introverted when his parents sent him off to a boys' school. The other students had been sent to boarding school because of being especially boisterous and needing strict discipline.
June graduated with honors from a university in uptown New York. That may have been Columbia University.
Then, June went on to graduate study, where his physician notified the university president that June was a sexual invert. As a result, June "was expelled from the university for being an androgyne," which caused him to suffer neurasthenia (depression), and he came close to suicide. Because of June's ordeal with being expelled for his difference, he wrote this plea in his third book, in capitals:
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Jennie June (autobiographer)
Jennie June (fl. 1895–1922) was a pseudonym of an American writer from the Victorian and Edwardian era known for advocating for the rights of people who did not conform to gender and sexual norms.
June was one of the earliest transgender individuals to publish an autobiography in the United States. Although June expressed a lifelong desire to be a woman, June consistently used he/him pronouns in reference to himself in his own writing. June wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of his practice of alternating between these two gender expressions.
He published his first autobiography, The Autobiography of an Androgyne, in 1918, and his second, The Female-Impersonators, in 1922. June also authored an unpublished third autobiography in 1921, which historians discovered in 2010. June's stated goal in writing these books was to help create what he would have wanted for himself: an accepting environment for young adults who do not conform to gender or sexual norms. He also wanted to prevent youth from committing suicide. Around 1895, June also created an organization for the rights of androgynes, together with others like himself; most if not all members were noted by June as being ultra-androgynes.
June also wrote under the pseudonyms of Earl Lind and Ralph Werther, which are sometimes incorrectly mistaken for birth names. June's birth name and legal name have been considered lost to history and are not certain. Queer history researcher Channing Gerard Joseph claims that June was most likely the writer and journalist Israel Mowry Saben (1870–1950), an early advocate for gender and sexual diversity.
Jennie June wrote that he was born into a Puritan family in 1874 in Connecticut. He was assigned male at birth. At the time of his birth, his mother was 28 (born circa 1846), and his father 32 (born circa 1842). June was their fourth child out of eleven children. His family was middle-class and wealthy.
June became very shy and introverted when his parents sent him off to a boys' school. The other students had been sent to boarding school because of being especially boisterous and needing strict discipline.
June graduated with honors from a university in uptown New York. That may have been Columbia University.
Then, June went on to graduate study, where his physician notified the university president that June was a sexual invert. As a result, June "was expelled from the university for being an androgyne," which caused him to suffer neurasthenia (depression), and he came close to suicide. Because of June's ordeal with being expelled for his difference, he wrote this plea in his third book, in capitals:
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