famoustransgenders:Christine JorgensenBorn in 1926, Christine Jorgensen became the first person to p
famoustransgenders:Christine JorgensenBorn in 1926, Christine Jorgensen became the first person to publicly transition from male to female in the United States. Born in New York, she was an Army clerk pre-transition.In the early 1950s, she learned of a Danish doctor, Christian Hamburger, who was experimenting with gender therapy using hormones. She began hormone therapy shortly thereafter and then had Dr. Hamburger perform reassigment surgery in Denmark a few years later.Upon her return, she made national news with the headline “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty” in the New York Daily News. She became a tabloid sensation overnight. -- source link