December 1, 1952

What's significant about this day?

It's the day the announcement of  Christine Jorgensen's SRS surgery in Denmark was plastered in newspapers all over the world.

SRS wasn't a new procedure.   Lili Elbe was the first along with a patient named 'Dorchen'  at Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Berlin based Institute of Sexual Science in 1930-31.  The new twist in Christine's procedure was adding the HRT prior to the surgical procedure.   


Christine didn't return to New York until February 1953, but the announcement primed the pump for her to become a media celebrity upon her arrival back in the States.

It also let people that felt the same way as Christine know they were not alone and they now had a way to deal with it.