This short article in the editorials section of The Medical Sentinel from 1918 discusses Dr. Harts transition.
"Amazing Sex Discovery"
Medical Sentinel
Volume 26 (1918)
Page 253
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Amazing Sex Discovery
A remarkable case of sex discovery was printed in the Albany papers recently. It seems that Dr. Lucille A. Hart, who was graduated from medical college and passed the State Board of Medical Examiners, is not Lucille but Alan.
The Albany papers gave a great deal of prominence to the sexual transformation of the doctor, and for years to come the children of Albany will stop in their play and question the sex of their playmates.
Dr. Hart is a graduate of Stanford University and the Medical Department, University of Oregon, and was one of the keenest minded individuals ever attending these institutions, and it seems strange indeed that the fixing of her sex was not determined long ago.
This is a very serious matter. It means more than enslaving a man to female attire or gratifying the desire of a female to play the male role. Medical journals are entitled to the findings from the pen of the surgeon who operated on the doctor.
This change of sex places Doctor Hart under the workings of the draft, and it is to be hoped that the Draft Board which passes upon the sex of the doctor will use extreme diligence in ferreting out this sex discrepancy. If Dr. Hart is of the male sex and representatives of our government say she is a male, we must accord to the doctor all the privileges of a male. If the findings should be that the doctor is of the female sex, a monstrous, inconceivable joke has been played on the children of our state who have heard the case discussed.