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A British doctor publishes a study on "hermaphroditism."

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The study's author, Lawson Tait, believes that ambiguous sex characteristics are a vestige of a past evolutionary period and therefore need to be "fixed." Tait begins to professionally "diagnose" the sex of children with ambiguous sex characteristics during this period.