Christine jorgensen a personal autobiography outline

Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography * Introduction by Susan Stryker * Cleis Press * $14.95

Before hormone replacement therapy, the Internet, and the Jerry Springer Show, there was Christine Jorgensen, transsexual superstar.

"I looked into a sea of faces ...

Christine jorgensen a personal autobiography outline

then heard a roar of voices shouting my name," she wrote in her best-selling 1967 memoir, describing her return to the United States from Denmark after her gender reassignment surgery. "I thought for a moment that I had entered Dante's inferno, as flashbulbs exploded from all directions and newsreel cameras whirred."

Jorgensen wasn't the first person to seek gender reassignment when she went under the knife in 1952, but for millions of newspaper readers, she might as well have been.

Her transformation made international headlines, and for decades she was the best-known transgendered person in the world.

Long out of print