Earl Lind (a.k.a. Ralph Werther; Jennie June), was born in a Puritan family in Connecticut. She is was one of the earliest hermaphrodites to publish their own autobiography in the United States. By 1895 she met other androgynes in New York City, in a society called Cercle Hermaphroditos, whose aim was "to unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution." She believed that she could 'diagnose a man sexually simply by hearing him sing', and she wanted to be an opera soprano. She is one of the first writers to defend homosexuality in print, with the 1918 publication of Autobiography of an Androgyne (she had been trying to find a publisher who would accept the work since 1900); the book put forth arguments in defense of homosexuality and challenges society to integrate homosexuals, and it also details her personal anguish and her attempts to become straight.

The book's two sequels are The Female-Impersonators (1922), and The Riddle of The Underworld, discussing and exploring the sexual underground of New York City, particularly male transvestism. She was openly on the board of the SHR in 1924.