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A new man

Started by LostInTime, February 28, 2007, 07:07:55 AM

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February 28, 2007, 07:07:55 AM
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Zinester turned biographer Pagan Kennedy traces the life of midcentury Englishman Michael Dillon — ship's doctor, Tibetan Buddhist, and, quite possibly, the world's first post-op FTM

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In 1946, Harold Gillies, widely considered to be the father of modern plastic surgery, performed the operation on Michael (formerly Laura) Dillon, a young British medical student who had been taking testosterone and living as a man for the past seven years.

Dillon went on to become a doctor, court — and possibly castrate — Roberta Cowell, the first male-to-female transsexual in Britain, sign on as ship's doctor on a boat to Mecca, and become quite possibly the first English Tibetan Buddhist novice.
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