On December 1, 1952 Americans were introduced to 26-year-old Christine Jorgensen, one of the first people to successfully undergo gender affirmation surgery. Instantaneously, the shy, private ...

George Jorgensen always knew he was different. In 1952, he traveled from New York to Denmark to undergo a sex change operation. When he returned as Christine, she was the subject of curiosity and ...

The sui-generis trans actress inspired works by Warhol, Lou Reed, and others, yet never broke through to the mainstream ...

John Hansen (Christine Jorgensen)Joan Tompkins (Aunt Thora)Quinn K. Redeker (Tom Crawford)John Himes (George Jorgensen Sr.)John Hansen (George Jorgensen Jr)Ellen Clark (Mrs. Florence Jorgensen ...

Christine Jorgensen’s personal life Following her vaginoplasty, Jorgensen became engaged to a man named John Traub, but it was called off. In 1959, she got engaged to American medical doctor ...

Christine Jorgensen became the first American widely known for undergoing gender confirmation surgery, bringing transgender issues into the public eye. Trans activists, including Marsha P.

The film offers reenactments of trans actors playing characters/people (based on the historical archive from UCLA) intercut ...

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Former Kentucky swimmer and assistant coach Briggs Alexander and a woman identified only as Jane Doe filed the suit Friday in ...

George Jorgensen always knew he was different. In 1952, he traveled from New York to Denmark to undergo a sex change operation. When he returned as Christine, she was the subject of curiosity and ...

From I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, which was published this month by Penguin Press. For months I was preoccupied with the matter of my name.… ...