MALE OR FEMALE?

Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 9

MALE OR FEMALE?

PECULIAR DIVORCE CASE A TANGLE OF SEXES _ Pi™** Asiocitttion—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, July 24. (Received July 25, at 9.15 a.m.) The Paris correspondent of the ‘ Morning Post ’ states that an astonishing divorce suit was heard in the courts The principal party was registered as a girl in accordance with the medical certificate of birth, but she later (developed male characteristics. When she married in 1921 she borrowed her brother’s identity papers in order to overcome legal obstacles due to the fact that she was officially of the female sex. The marriage T Jius took place. The husband had served in the war, and later the wife brought a petition for divorce, whereupon the husband produced the birth certificate and forced the court to hold that misconduct was impossible, as both parties were proved to be women. The wife’s counsel pleaded that this was an absurdity, but the court pointed out that the Civil Code ordained that questions of this kind could not be considered after six months of marriage.—A. and N.Z. Cable.