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Rh never showed evidence of a suspicion that I might be an invert. They were probably ignorant of the existence of this human sport. "He blushes like a woman," was said of me. Later, in my fairie days, my associates would remark that my hands felt like a woman's, and that my skin in general was as soft as a woman's. They said that my voice, especially when singing, had a feminine timbre. The voice is one of the chief criteria by which to determine abnormal sexuality. I fancy that I can diagnose a man sexually simply by hearing him sing. For example, a male invert, as well as the closely related "eunuch by birth" or anaphrodite, is likely to sing a tenor which is hardly distinguishable from an alto.

I have been told that my speaking voice is a very uncommon one, having the "fulness of a woman's voice," and that it often "breaks and changes, sometimes in the middle of a sentence; from being masculine, it suddenly changes timbre and becomes decidedly feminine." I have myself observed sometimes when in conversation with a young man with whom I was in love that my voice would involuntarily change from a bass to a treble. My voice has also been described as "soothing, sentimental-sounding, gushing, bland, and caressing." I have been told that when I talk, involuntary—and to myself unconscious—movements of the lips take place not necessary for articulation, and that the same movements take place occasionally even when I am not talking.

Barbers have remarked that my hair is "literally as fine as silk," that they had "never seen it so fine in any other man." I believe this to be a general peculiarity