The Charleston Daily Mail, Nov. 3, 1933: “Sex Change Possible, Physician Maintains”

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 3 (UP). — A man may “turn into a woman,” just as a California girl has assumed some of the physical characteristics of a man. Dr. Herbert M. Evans, professor of anatomy at University of California, said today.

“Our experiments with chickens show conclusively that hens have stopped laying eggs, grown combs and virtually become roosters,” said Dr. Evans, here for a clime meeting.

“It is possible that the woman might be turning into a man. ”Of course the change could not be complete in the human being except in the secondary sexual characteristics such as to contours of the, body, growth of coarse hair, change of voice and the like.

‘It also would be possible for a man to turn into a woman.”

Dr. Evans explained, however, that the fundamental characteristics of man or woman could not be sufficiently changed to cause any difference, without removal or addition of certain glands.

The specialist, noted since his work 13 years ago when he separated the sex and grow the hormones of the pituitary gland after long research, explained the present day need for more research in the branch of medicine dealing with glands of internal secretion.

“Medicine has practically reached the position where it has control of all infectious diseases, but only a start has been made in the field dealing with internal secretion glands,” he said.