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How an American boy went to Denmark to become a blonde beauty Christine Jorgense

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May 29, 2016, 02:22:51 PM
How an American boy went to Denmark to become a blonde beauty Christine Jorgensen

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/how-an-american-boy-went-to-denmark-to-become-a-blonde-beauty-christine-jorgensen/news-story/ebf66549c81aef30fd6d7e66e788c5d1

Courier Mail/May 29, 2016 9:00am Troy LennonHistory editorThe Daily Telegraph

"AMERICANS were fascinated by the elegant blonde woman arriving back in the country after a trip to Denmark early in 1953. Stylishly dressed in a fur coat and a jaunty hat, the softly spoken woman confidently fielded questions from reporters who had gathered to meet her at Idlewild airport in New York.

But she was not a movie star nor a model. Before she left for Denmark her name was George William Jorgensen Jr, but George had undergone radical gender reassignment surgery to become a woman. The New York Daily News had earlier broken the story with the headline "Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty: Surgery transforms Bronx youth". Suddenly the shy Jorgensen was thrust into the limelight."
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