truly remarks (Die Homosexualitaet, p. 158), “is more full of life, of enterprise, of practical energy, more aggressive, more heroic, more apt for adventure, than either the heterosexual woman or the homosexual man.”  Sometimes, he adds, her mannishness may approach reckless brutality, and her courage becomes rashness.  This author observes, however, in another place (p. 272) that, in addition to this group of inverted women with masculine traits there is another group, “not less large,” of equally inverted women who are outwardly as thoroughly feminine as are normal women.  This is not an observation which I am able to confirm.  It appears to me that the great majority of inverted women possess some masculine or boyish traits, even though only as slight as those which may occasionally be revealed by normal women.  Extreme femininity, in my observation, is much more likely to be found in bisexual than in homosexual women, just as extreme masculinity is much more likely to be found in bisexual than in homosexual men.

While inverted women frequently, though not always, convey an impression of mannishness or boyishness, there are no invariable anatomical characteristics associated with this impression.  There is, for instance, no uniform tendency to a masculine distribution of hair.  Nor must it be supposed that the presence of a beard in a woman indicates a homosexual tendency.  “Bearded women,” as Hirschfeld remarks, are scarcely ever inverted, and it would seem that the strongest reversals of secondary sexual characters less often accompany homosexuality than slighter modifications of these characters.[167] A faint moustache and other slight manifestations of hypertrichosis also by no means necessarily indicate homosexuality.  To some extent it is a matter of race; thus in the Pera district of Constantinople, Weissenberg, among nearly seven hundred women between about 18 and 50 years of age, noted that 10 per cent, showed hair on the upper lip; they were most often Armenians, the Greeks coming next.[168]

There has been some dispute as to whether, apart from homosexuality, hypertrichosis in a woman can be regarded as an indication of a general masculinity.  This is denied by Max Bartels (in his elaborate study, “Ueber abnorme Behaarung beim Menschen,” Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, 1876, p. 127; 1881, p. 219) and, as regards insanity, by L. Harris-Liston ("Cases of Bearded Women,” British Medical Journal, June 2, 1894).  On the other hand, J.H.  Claiborne ("Hypertrichosis in Women,” New York Medical Journal, June 13, 1914) believes that hair on the face and body in a woman is a sign of masculinity; “women with hypertrichosis possess masculine traits.”

There seems to be very little doubt that fully developed “bearded women” are in most, possibly not all, cases decidedly feminine in all other respects.  A typical instance is furnished by Annie Jones, the “Esau Lady”