ABSTRACT
Germain Gamier, christened Marie … was a well-built young man with a thick red beard, who, until the age of fifteen … had lived and dressed like a girl, showing ‘no mark of masculinity’. Then once, in the heat of puberty, the girl jumped across a ditch while chasing pigs through a wheatfield: ‘at that very moment the genitalia and the male rod came to be developed in him, having ruptured the ligaments by which they had been held enclosed’. Marie, soon to be Marie no longer, hastened home to her/his mother, who consulted physicians and surgeons, all of whom assured the somewhat shaken woman that her daughter had become her son.
