Gorgeous Georgie, shy GI, who said "hej hej" to being a guy
Saturday, 12 November 2011 06:00 Bonnie Fortune
http://www.cphpost.dk/culture/denmark-through-the-looking-glass/171-denmark-through-the-looking-glass/52491-gorgeous-georgie-shy-gi-who-said-hej-hej-to-being-a-guy.htmlFrom the time he was small, he knew he was different from all the other boys. After years of struggle, George finally found happiness and success as a woman in Denmark
An American citizen born to Danish parents, George Jorgensen Jr would return to Denmark to transform into the woman he had always dreamed of being. The unconfident and depressed George became the beautiful and successful Christine, and an international symbol for the rights and acceptance of life as a transsexual, courageously breaking social barriers starting in 1953.
On 20 May 1926, Jorgensen was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He reported a fairly happy childhood, but hiding just below the surface, he always knew something was different.
