29 November 2012 Last updated at 19:30 ET
Christine Jorgensen: 60 years of sex change ops
By Chloe Hadjimatheou BBC World Service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20544095

News of a pioneering sex change operation, one of the first involving both surgery and hormone therapy, was announced in 1952 - exactly 60 years ago this weekend.

"Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty!" screamed one headline as newspapers in the United States broke the news.

George Jorgensen, a quiet New Yorker, shocked a nation by returning from a trip to Denmark transformed into the glamorous Christine.

As the slender, blonde 27-year-old woman wrapped in a fur coat stepped out of the plane on to the tarmac in New York, her long eyelashes, high cheekbones and full red lips betrayed little of the shy man she had once been.

Wow!!! She was really pretty 

  She was before!  It was her that made me realize that I was not alone during a TV interview in the mid 1960's. 

  Joelene, another 60 year old.

Iv always admired her, she has always been a role model for me, gave me the inspiration to become the woman I am now.

By Andy Rudd
I'm a lady! 60 years since the world's first sex-change operation
30 Nov 2012 13:39

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/im-a-lady-60-years-since-the-worlds-1465182

Former US soldier George Jorgensen shocked the world by returning from a 'holiday' in Denmark as a slender, blonde, woman called Christine

This weekend marks 60 years to the day the world's first pioneering sex-change operation took place.

Former US soldier George Jorgensen shocked the world by returning from a 'holiday' in Denmark as a slender, blonde, woman called Christine.

Jorgensen, from New York, made headlines across the globe with one screaming "Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty!"

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It's been 60 years since the first he turned she: Bronx-born Christine Jorgensen's historic sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark
Former Army Pvt. George Jorgensen made headlines around the world when he returned from Denmark as a blond woman named Christine.

By Michael Walsh / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, November 30, 2012, 4:40 PM
   
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/60-years-christine-jorgensen-born-article-1.1211068

Denmark's Dr. Christian Hamburger changed Jorgensen's genitalia from male to female in 1952 — 60 years ago. Based on her doctor's name, Christian, Jorgensen chose Christine as her new female name.

This weekend marks the 60-year anniversary of the first widely known successful sexual reassignment surgery — when a boy from the Bronx became a lady.

Former Army Pvt. George Jorgensen made headlines around the world when he returned from Denmark as a blond woman named Christine. But before Jorgensen shocked the world, she shocked her family.

"Nature made a mistake which I have had corrected, and now I am your daughter," Jorgensen wrote to her parents, shortly after the operation.

I had the opportunity to have interviewed Ms. Jorgensen in 1970 for the V C U Commonwealth Times News . In addition, I was also granted a short 1 on 1 . OH boy, was the 1- on 1 a real eye opener . I suddenly realized how I was being read by the inerviewiee ! ellen

She has always been my heroine.

'We didn't start the sexual revolution but we gave it a good kick in the pants!' 60th anniversary of world's first SEX CHANGE that turned shy New York gent into blonde starlet

    George Jorgensen shocked the U.S. in December 1952 by transforming into a glamourous woman named Christine
    Former soldier read about a Danish doctor who was experimenting with sex change therapy using animals and booked a ticket to Copenhagen
    After taking female hormones, Jorgensen underwent a series of operations to transform her genitals from male to female
    Her family, the media and the public were generally supportive of her decision and she was embraced by Hollywood

By Helen Pow

PUBLISHED: 19:08 EST, 1 December 2012 | UPDATED: 19:16 EST, 1 December 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241655/Christine-Jorgensen-sex-change-60th-anniversary-worlds-SEX-CHANGE-turned-shy-New-York-gent-blonde-starlet.html

It's been 60 years since the world's first successful sex change operation transformed a quiet New York gent into a slender, blonde glamourpuss.

George Jorgensen shocked the nation in December 1952 by returning from a trip to Denmark as a 27-year-old woman named Christine.

Wrapped in a fur coat with eyelashes long, cheekbones high and full lips painted red, Christine resembled nothing of the young man she had been when she departed.