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Christine Jorgensen served in the US Army in WW2, went to school, learned that bottom surgery was a thing, and went to Denmark to get it started. She is one of the first recorded Americans to have received the triple triad of trans female bottom surgery: orchiectomy, penectomy, and vaginoplasty. She reported eagerly to friends via letter: "As you can see by the enclosed photos, taken just before the operation, I have changed a great deal. But it is the other changes that are so much more important. Remember the shy, miserable person who left America? Well, that person is no more and, as you can see, I'm in marvelous spirits."* Her bravery in undergoing what were then extremely novel procedures helped push those operations forward.
She also spoke openly about her experiences, as bedeviled by transphobia as she was (for example, she was unable to legally marry her would-be husband Howard Knox, because her birth certificate listed her as male, and Howard lost his job as soon as the engagement was announced). She was a nightclub entertainer until she died of cancer in 1989.

*Ever since I started hormones, people have been telling *me* I looked happier, even sometimes people I wasn't out to yet. And I certainly feel happier, so this little excerpt spoke to me. Nothing feels better than becoming the person you were always meant to be.