17-05-2013, 09:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-05-2013, 09:58 PM by Demon Lord Etna.)
A great read, but I noticed a point right at the beginning that amazes me that even today, 60+ years later, people keep forgetting a few very important points about Christine Jorgensen.
She wasn't the first gender reassignment patient. That had happened over 30 years earlier in Germany (first documented, at least).
She also wasn't really "reassigned", so much as "refocused". A point that just about every bio on Jorgensen omits is that she wasn't born wholly male... she was a hermaphrodite. The gender reassignment was actually just picking one over the other. Her penis was deceiving the world into thinking she would be a man. Even served in the military.
She wasn't the first gender reassignment patient. That had happened over 30 years earlier in Germany (first documented, at least).
She also wasn't really "reassigned", so much as "refocused". A point that just about every bio on Jorgensen omits is that she wasn't born wholly male... she was a hermaphrodite. The gender reassignment was actually just picking one over the other. Her penis was deceiving the world into thinking she would be a man. Even served in the military.