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between themselves respecting names for 

 their children, but my father died before I 

 was born, and my mother informed me I 

 must have the name she had always borne 

 herself. In fact I now know, as the Hon- 

 orable Teddy Roosevelt says, that down in 

 East Africa there is what is known as a 

 bull Hartebeest, and another as a cow 

 Hartebeest, and that each has no other 

 truly descriptive name to always designate 

 whether it was born boy or girl Hartebeest, 

 and that this is also true in a wide sense 

 everywhere. Some people are called men 

 and some are termed women, are they not? 

 Besides, it is against all laws and all fash- 

 ions for men to call themselves women, or 

 for women to call themselves men. I am 

 sure that some of these go by the name of 

 males and others females, which I think 

 comes to the same thing, except that when 

 you talk that way you are dividing them all 

 into two great distinct classes because of 

 their sex. But the singular fact in the lives 

 of my mothers and grandmothers all the 



