True Sex. Emily Skidmore

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      The people of Prentiss county, Miss., are wondering how Miss Willie Ray managed to palm herself off upon them as a man for nearly eight years without her sex being suspected even by her most intimate friends and neighbors.

      Miss Ray has lived in Prentiss county since 1895, and during the first five or six years worked for various farmers for wages. She dressed as an ordinary farm hand and made regular trips to Booneville, the county seat, each Saturday afternoon, riding horseback, to all appearances a neat-looking boy of quiet habits, although a steady chewer and smoker of tobacco.

      Willie was known all over the country as a first-class field hand, a hard-worker and good for his debts. Last year the girl in masquerade decided to start out as an independent farmer and rented a small farm, bought a small store and began to run into debt, as all small farmers are expected to do.

      Her sex was discovered last week at the court house in Booneville, where she was a party to a lawsuit, and since then Willie has had to wear skirts.

      She came from Tennessee, is about twenty-five years of age, and when asked her reasons for posing as a man said that she did it in order to go out and do a man’s labor for a living.56

      Just as in the national coverage of George Green and William Howard, Willie Ray’s story is depicted as an incredible and unusual tale. His case is cast as remarkable because of the success with which he passed as a man, and because of his ability to fulfill the demanding (masculine) tasks of farming for so many years without detection. Perhaps Ray’s story appealed to newspaper editors nationwide because it presented a narrative that appeared incredible—how could a woman pass as a man so successfully? In such iterations, the story was not “woman dresses as man and pursues women,” but rather “town was fooled for several years by woman masquerading in male clothes.”

      The national coverage of Willie Ray’s story illustrates a clear investment, on the part of newspaper editors, in portraying the rural community of Prentiss County as entirely ignorant of the potential of same-sex desire, and intolerant of gender transgression moving forward. Ray’s alleged relationship with Mrs. Gatlin generally did not appear in the national press; when it did, the accounts made clear that Ray revealed his “true sex” in order to “disprove an allegation that had been lodged.”57 As explained above, this logic depends an understanding of rural spaces as ignorant of same-sex desire. While Prentiss County was portrayed in the national press as lacking all knowledge of nonnormative sexuality, one attribute the area did supposedly have was a legal regime to regulate gender expression.

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