Who was Christine Jorgensen?
Christine Jorgensen was a transsexual woman who was born in the 20’s, and in the 50’s she was living as a male and was a soldier in the war at the time and such, but she was trans, she felt that she needed to transition. At the time there had not been a public transition of her magnitude. There had been a few European people, like the artist Lily Elb and such, who did transition publicly, but the media had not developed to the point that it had when Christine transitioned. So, Christine Jorgensen was a trans woman who transitioned right at the point when the media had developed enough to cover that on a worldwide level. So she had one of the first majorly publicized sexual reassignment surgeries in Denmark and came back and became a huge celebrity in the United States based mostly on that fact.
