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Christine Jorgensen
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Christine Jorgensen
A person (1927–89) born in the US as George Jorgensen, Jr., who, having felt that he was a woman trapped in a man’s body, in 1952 underwent in Denmark what was not the first, but certainly the most famous sex-change operation. Jorgensen died of bladder cancer that had metastasised to the lungs at age 62
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Many of those of a certain age remember this news about Christine Jorgensen, born George Jorgensen Jr.
Becoming a woman; a biography of Christine Jorgensen by Reference & Research Book News
95 paper) WHEN GEORGE JORGENSEN became a woman and renamed herself Christine some fifty years ago, she made headlines around the world.
That trip did her good by Schlichenmeyer, Terri / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The story is well known: George Jorgensen, a shy veteran of World War II, departed for Denmark in 1951 at the age of 26.
Christine Jorgensen, A Personal Autobiography by Bullough, Vern L. / The Journal of Sex Research
 
 
 
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