When the New York Daily News blared the headline “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty; Operations Transform Bronx Youth” on Dec. 1, 1952, Christine Jorgensen was still recovering from surgery in a hospital bed in Denmark.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
A gender-affirming surgery gripped America in 1952: ‘I am your daughter’
By Francine Uenuma
June 12, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EDT