I've had trouble researching this and wonder if its apocraphyl or maybe some type of misunderstanding on the part of my teacher about someone like Alan Hart. Do you have any idea who my teacher could have been talking about? Thanks

There was a lady before women's suffrage who posed as a doctor and had success. She was caught by the authorities and at trial they planned to give her a lighter sentence than a man but she objected and demanded to be punished as a man would be for impersonating a doctor.