Sex Change Anniversary

Published December 1, 2002 at 7:00 PM HST

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Fifty years ago today came the news that an American named George Jorgensen had undergone a successful sex-change operation in Denmark. The story of Christine Jorgensen helped change the way some Americans think about gender.

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