Philadelphia City Paper
by Ashlea Halpern

Spector was born in Philadelphia in 1917 and graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1943. After practicing general medicine in Texas, California and West Virginia, he moved back to Philly in 1954. Three years later, under dubious circumstances, he performed his first castration on a transsexual in Casablanca.

Word spread quickly about the good doctor who would lop off a person's testicles at their discretion.