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bi-but-not-binary: deepfried-dildos:dreamsofamadman: somethingaboutdelia: cryingalonewithfrankenstein: This photo always cheers me up a bit. It’s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery. Since the text is a bit small and I couldn’t find a larger copy, here’s what the small blurb says: A World of a Difference George W. Jorgensen, Jr., son of a Bronx carpenter, served in the Army for two years and was given honorable discharge in 1946. Now George is no more. After six operations, Jorgensen’s sex has been changed and today she is a striking woman, working as a photographer in Denmark. Parents were informed of the big change in a letter Christine (that’s her new name) sent to them recently. This article is 58 years old, and it’s more respectful of Christine’s pronoun choices and name than some publications are today. It makes me happy to see a newspaper be respectful of a trans person’s choice of name and pronouns like that :3 Say it again for the haters in the back who want to keep pretending that trans people, or even treating trans people with respect is even remotely anything new. It’s worth mentioning, that this was kinda celebrated as a wonder of the atomic age at the time. “Look at the power of our scientists! Look at what we can do!”You know, back when America was trying to be the leader in scientific advancement. The “(that’s her new name)” gave me so much serotonin because it made me feel like I’m listening to a kid talk about a trans person. Like “this is her new name, it’s so pretty!” IDK if anyone else felt that but I did. [ID: A 1955 issue of the Daily News, featuring the headline “Ex-GI Becomes Blond Beauty: Operations Transform Bronx Youth”, along with two images of Christine Jorgensen, pre- and post-transition. Below the pre-transition photograph is the text, already transcribed.] End ID -- source link