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A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites is published.

1741

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The book is written in England by John Parsons, but likely reflects most early American colonists' perspectives on the social and legal "problems" they associate with intersex people, who are called "human hermaphrodites" at the time. The text explores possible legal questions, such as whether someone who is intersex should be given a male or female name at birth and whether or not they should be allowed to marry or divorce.