Christine Jorgensen was a famous transsexual woman who preferred to be referred to as being a transgender woman: 1979: Newsday article reprinted in the Winnipeg Free Press, 1979 The article reads: As a young man, Jorgensen experienced strong…
. The Boston Daily Globe: Tues., Sept. 15, 1885 WINCHESTER’S SENSATION Pretty Girls Who Claimed to Be Men. The Romance of "Rebecca," Afterward "Lawrence," H Payne. A Father’s Efforts to Secure Possession of His Child. The Washington Post…
Certificate of Death Commonwealth of Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics State Board of Health #11956 Place of Death Country of: Fredrick Magisterial District of: Stonewall Registration District No: 3416 Registered No: 2 Full Name Lawrence R. Payne Personal…
The Daily Gazette: Fort Wayne, Ind, Thursday Morning, May 1, 1884 Lawrence Register Payne, most of whose life has been passed as a woman in Frederick county, Virginia, under the name of Rebecca Payne, and whose recent marriage…
THE DAILY JOURNAL: FREEPOBT, ILLINOIS,. SEPTEMBER 3, 188o. PAINFUL EXPOSURE. A VIRGINIA SENSATION HAS A STARTLING SEQUEL Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To Be Masculines —The Adventures of the Feminines of the Payne Family. WASHINGTON CITY, Sept…
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…
Prior to this post, it was asserted that the term “transsexual” was first used in 1949 (transexual and transsexualis) and the German version, (transsexualismus) was first used in 1923. Now, it seems that this term first appeared in…
The current Standards of Care (SOC) is version VII. Here’s were everything got started in 1979 with the HBIGDA SOC I: SOC I (1979) Cover Page STANDARDS OF CARE The hormonal and surgical sex reassignment of gender dysphoric…
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…