Niagara Falls Gazette Thursday, Nov. 21, 1968 Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966 BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s “gender identity clinic’ have been performing sex-change operations since July 1966. The program, first…
Waterloo Daily Courier, January 8, 1967, Page 55 Trans-Sex Surgery at Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, (AP) – Trans-sexual surgery has been completed on the first patient in the University of Minnesota Medical School’s gender research program. Dr. Donald W.…
Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known gay youth organization in the United…
"Trans-sexualists" - Midnight, Vol 13, No 21, 5/19/63 They think like women and like to think of themselves as women. They feel like women and react like women. They want to be women and ought to be women,…
Dr. Diamond is an early pioneer in trans research. Outside of the trans community, he is best known for exposing the “John/Joan” case in which Dr. Money (who allegedly physically attacked Dr. Diamond years before) faked his research…
The trans community continues to create words in order to capture the nuances of cultural gender roles, our physical sex and the entire experience of transitioning. Developing terminology to deal with all of this nuanced and subjective experience…
FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY HARRY BENJAMIN, M.D. Noted American endocrinologist “As a physician and, I hope, a medical man of understanding, I salute the courage of Christine Jorgensen and the warm humanity of the Jorgensen family. “Here is…
The TRANSSEXUAL PHENOMENON Harry Benjamin, M.D Preface and Acknowledgement There is a challenge as well as a handicap in writing a book on a subject that is not yet covered in the medical literature. Transsexualism is such a…
This is a review when of early news and how it reported on Jorgensen. I’ve found that Jorgensen does not seem to have been referred to as a “transsexual” in newsprint during the first several years that she…
From Sexual Hygiene and Pathology, 1965 by John F. Oliven, MD: Page 514 From the section, “Primary Transvestism,” which is part of chapter 20, Sexual Deviations: Transsexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an…