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Maria Dorothea Derrier (also known as Karl Dürrge: 1780–1835) was a Prussian intersex person, who was designated on birth documents as a female. After discovering the presence of ambiguous external genitalia, Derrier assumed a male identity and made a living as a medical specimen. Together with reports of other intersex persons, who allowed their bodies to be used for medical research, Derrier's case led to the establishment of guidelines for determining sex. Carrying their medical records with them, these intersex individuals helped develop the exchange of medical knowledge between physicians, leading to the application of serial analysis over time to the medical field. An examination of Derrier's life provides insight into the way that persons presumed to be female at birth were able to use the law to gain rights as men, as well as into the changing discourses on gender and sexuality, which had begun to emerge in the 18th century and began codification in the 19th century.
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1835 (aged 54)
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