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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 3

The most exciting ad venture of 1936 bas just been revealed by some Vienna doctors. l't happcned to a young married woman of thirty-two, who in the coursc of a fcw monlhs beeame a man und then rcsumed onco more hcr origi&al sex. The patient noticed, to her (Jisxnay, that heA whole body was uadergoing a deep-rootod change. She grew a beard and moutaehe, her voice plunged towards the bass, her face skin beeame eoarse, her muscles tightened up and her normal deposits of fat disi.ppcared. Her whole body unmistakubly became inasculine. Tho cause was eorrectly diagnosed to be an ovarian tinnor, and when this was removed tho patient rapidly and completely reeovered her natural attributes, Theso ciianges of sex are, of course, fairly fomnioii, but wdiat made this case so itmarkable was the suddenness of the change followcd by an equally lapid recovery. This case follows on several announcements that women athletes were undergoing operations to change their sex, and at least two legal cases where husbands have turned' out to be women. Probably such cases are less uneemmou. thaa we thinlu