CHANGED HIS SEX.
BROUGHT UP AS A GIRL. NOW DECLARED A MAN. • BIRTH REGISTRATION ALTERED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, March 24. There is . widespread' general and medical interest in the case of Evan Burt, who was registered and has since lived as a girl. He dressed as a man for the first time to-day. He stated: “I have been forced all my life to wear pinafores and play with dolls in the companionship of girls. Now I am a mail I can. go to public houses, drink, smoke, and wear men’s clothes." _ . As the result of protracted negotiations the Registrar-General has agreed lo change his birth registration from a girl Lo a boy. Burt agrees that men’s clothes are uncomfortable, and he prefers the dress and apron which he has worn for 29 years. He is to be married at Easter, and it is unlikely that he will settle in his native town, which is staggered by the revelations.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 7
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161CHANGED HIS SEX. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 7
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