1895–1922) was a pseudonym of an American writer from the Victorian and Edwardian era known for advocating for the rights of people who did not conform to gender and sexual norms.

June's stated goal in writing these books was to help create what he would have wanted for himself: an accepting environment for young adults who do not conform to gender or sexual norms.

June also wrote under the pseudonyms of Earl Lind and Ralph Werther, which are sometimes incorrectly mistaken for birth names.

Queer history researcher Channing Gerard Joseph claims that June was most likely the writer and journalist Israel Mowry Saben (1870–1950), an early advocate for gender and sexual diversity.

As a result, June "was expelled from the university for being an androgyne," which caused him to suffer neurasthenia (depression), and he came close to suicide.

As young as the ages three to seven, June expected that he would only ever wear skirts after growing up, and asked playmates to call him Jennie.

He began to have some breast growth in his middle teens, possibly gynecomastia, which is not rare in people who were assigned male at birth.

This finally cured June's lifelong depression, because instead of trying to purge himself of his inversion out of the fear that it was a sin, he instead concluded that God had predestined him to be an invert.

[6] According to one autobiography, June had engaged in "intimate relations" with 800 young men, half of whom were volunteer soldiers or sailors.

June expected this would make him healthier and decrease his extreme and "disturbing" desires for sex, and eliminate some masculine features he disliked, such as facial hair.

[4] During that era, there was the incorrect but widespread medical belief that nocturnal emissions would damage a person's health and intelligence, and June was fearful of that possibility.

[20] As a young adult, June found safe havens in places such as the gay bar Paresis Hall in New York City to express his feminine identity.

[22] June was one of the members of the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, led by pseudonymous Roland Reeves, along with other androgynes who frequented Paresis Hall.

June organized the book into episode-like sections, wherein he discusses incidents in his life as well as his opinions on certain social matters.

The memoir describes in detail many personal narratives as well as June's sexual encounters and desires, including the story of his castration, but also contains pleas for understanding and acceptance of "fairies".

The Autobiography of an Androgyne also describes how June felt that he lived a double life in the sense that he was an educated, middle-class white male scholar, but also had intense yearnings for performing sexual acts that distressed him.

After searching for around twenty years for the long-lost third volume, he finally discovered the partial manuscript in the archives of the National Library of Medicine.

Some of these photographs treat their subjects as medical specimens, because a popular Victorian pseudoscience called physiognomy believed that the personality could be seen in the shape of the body, supporting June's argument that it is in his nature to be an invert.

[9] The statue that June imitates in one of these photos is the Sleeping Hermaphroditus, a lost bronze original by the ancient Greek Polycles (working ca 155 BC).