Oakland Tribune, California, May 30, 1905

Randolph Milbourne, who was arrested here a few days ago for appearing on the streets dressed in female attire, has not received an answer to the letter he wrote Attorney-General Wade Ellis, asking his opinion as to whether he cannot continue to wear women’s clothes on the streets without violating the law.

Milbourne asserts that the law does not touch his case, as he desires to wear female attire because it better suits his form, and he feels more comfortable when thus dressed than when he is dressed as a man. He says he never did like to wear men’s clothing, and for years he has been wearing the garb of a woman about his home, where he lived alone.

…“I am physically a man, yet spiritually and intellectually I am neither a man nor a woman, while I feel that in form and spirit I incline more to effeminacy and am gradually taking on more of the nature of womanhood”