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The first public gender-affirming surgery gains U.S. attention.
Date: 1952
Queer/Trans, LGBTSTGNC+
Medical system (Western medicine)
Christine Jorgensen undergoes the surgery in Copenhagen, Denmark and returns to the U.S., where she is outed by the American press.
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