From the VFArchive: The advances, the anguish, and the road to acceptance in transgender history.
The late 19th and early 20th centuries also resulted in systematic research by various physicians, the most important of whom was German-trained Magnus Hirschfeld, described on some historical Web sites as the"father of transgenderism.
The Institute of Science is believed to have performed the first recorded genital transformation surgery in which a penis was replaced with a vagina in 1931, according to various histories.
In 1939, British doctor Michael Dillon started taking testosterone in an apparently unprecedented effort to transition from female to male. Several years later Dillon, as quoted in Beemyn's history, wrote a book summarizing the needs of transgender women and men: they"would develop naturally enough if only [they] belonged to the other sex."
The first widespread exposure to the American public of a transgender woman came in 1952, when it was revealed by the New Yorkthat a former Army soldier, newly named Christine Jorgensen, had gone to Denmark and undergone transition surgery. Jorgenson created a sensation not only in the United States but also around the world, in part because she had once been a soldier and was now in the eyes of the media a"blonde bombshell.
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