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    Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989), born George William Jorgensen Jr., was an American actress, singer, recording artist, and transgender...
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  • The Christine Jorgensen Story is a 1970 American drama film and a fictionalized biographical film about trans woman Christine Jorgensen. While the overall...
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  • I hope that this change will be better. I hope she'll be happy.” Christine Jorgensen was the first widely known transgender woman to travel to Denmark...
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  • the Third Reich. The respective transitions of transgender women Christine Jorgensen and Coccinelle in the 1950s brought wider awareness of sex reassignment...
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    landing his most famous role, he also played a young Christine Jorgensen in The Christine Jorgensen Story, and appeared in episodes of Gunsmoke and Emergency...
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  • of Christine Jorgensen's autobiography, Dr. Benjamin also gives Jorgensen credit for the advancement of his studies. He wrote, "Indeed Christine, without...
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  • songwriter Charlotte Jørgensen (born 1972), Danish ballroom dancer Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989), American transgender woman Claus Jørgensen (born 1974), Danish...
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  • endocrinologist. He worked in Copenhagen and was the doctor responsible for Christine Jorgensen's sex reassignment, and she would choose her name in honor of him...
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  • Christine Jorgensen Reveals is a 2005 American theatrical show that depicts the 1957 one-hour interview of Christine Jorgensen by Nipsey Russell. This...
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    Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen Herself Documentary film Equal Christine Jorgensen Docuseries Red Bird Lane Jessica Pilot 2022 Hellraiser The Priest...
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    November 22, 2006. He had credited small roles in films such as The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970), How Awful About Allan (1970), Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)...
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    Waltz (1971) with Alan Alda. The same year, Ferdin appeared in The Christine Jorgensen Story, based on the life of the first person in the United States...
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    rehabilitation from a near-fatal stroke in 1965. During an interview with Christine Jorgensen, the first widely known trans woman to have sex reassignment surgery...
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    by transgender, transsexual, and transvestite people, including Christine Jorgensen and Virginia Prince, who used transgenderal in the December 1969...
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    the film was loosely inspired by the sex reassignment surgery of Christine Jorgensen, which made national headlines in the U.S. in 1952. George Weiss...
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    A Biography of Christine Jorgensen, p. 13. Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9781136576287. Accessed September 23, 2016. "George William Jorgensen Jr. was born May...
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    Books. ISBN 0-671-52095-4. OCLC 37901705. Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography, by Christine Jorgensen and Susan Stryker (2000) How Sex Changed:...
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  • Newspapers.com. "Christine Jorgensen is Silver Slipper Hit". Las Vegas Review-Journal. December 2, 1955. Retrieved August 9, 2024. "Christine Jorgensen, the First...
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  • Gary (July 13, 1970). "'Christine': Film". The Washington Post. p. C5. Markoutsas, Elaine (14 Jan 1979). "Christine Jorgensen celebrates 26 years as a...
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  • she identified similarities between her own experience and that of Christine Jorgensen. Delect starred in a documentary, which brought the experiences of...
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    California, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1953-1980 Known for The Christine Jorgensen Story Valiant Lady Sam Benedict This Is Nora Drake Spouse(s) Steve...
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  • woman" whereas Christine was seen to be an "altered male". Xie's emergence as the Taiwanese people's equivalent of Christine Jorgensen had great cultural...
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    American popular culture, the image of the zaftig FBI director as a Christine Jorgensen wanna-be was too delicious not to savor." Biographer Kenneth Ackerman...
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    teenager who was killed by members of the Dominican gang Trinitarios. Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989), actress, first known trans woman to publicly undergo...
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    definitive recording. Suzuki's performance of the song inspired Christine Jorgensen, who described "I Enjoy Being a Girl" as her theme song and performed...
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  • transplant. However, she died three months after her last operation. Christine Jorgensen was likely the most famous recipient of sex reassignment surgery...
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    William Johnston – novelist Thomas Jones (1731–1792) – historian Christine Jorgensen – transgender pioneer Charlie Kaufman – screenwriter and director...
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    first time Locke was considered to play a transsexual. In 1969, Christine Jorgensen, the trans woman famous for having sex reassignment surgery in Denmark...
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  • who has undergone sex reassignment surgery. The term alludes to Christine Jorgensen, a trans woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery in Copenhagen...
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    American Saga, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1927. Jorgensen, Christine. Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography, New York: Paul S. Eriksson...
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