Transexuals through history

[Melissa Pink]

I surprised that no one has mentioned Christina Jorgenson yet. I read her biography when I was young. As I read about her life I was fascinated with reading about the first person known to have sexual reassignment surgery in 1952. I readily identified with her feelings and respect her courage to be a pioneer in something that has become fairly common in today's society. I'm not sure society is anymore open minded about girls like me, but I think that technology and the Internet has made the world a smaller place. It's easier for transgenders and those that are attracted to them to connect. That is a good thing! This is a link to an article about Miss Jorgenson.


http://www.transgenderzone.com/featu...eJorgensen.htm

[sosed]

In Greeco-Roman they show god/dess Hermaphrodite as woman with penis and Greeks make statues of male form of goddes Aphrodita named Aphroditus as woman who lift her skirt to show penis.

Ancient societies also talk about third gender, which was quite wide term and they are not only eunuchs. Many transgender persons serve as priests in goddess cult, where they often castrate themselves and live as woman like Gallae priest in Cybile mother goddess cult. Romans tolerate them, but Roman citizens were not allowed to be priests in the cult.

[Smoothie]

Very interesting topic, I'll hit the books.

[Florian]

Is anyone aware of a male tennis player who was reasigned female? I did a search, but couldn't find anything.

[smc]

Originally Posted by Florian

Is anyone aware of a male tennis player who was reasigned female? I did a search, but couldn't find anything.

Ren?e Richards ... very famous. Hard to imagine that you couldn't find anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards

[Florian]

Originally Posted by smc

Ren?e Richards ... very famous. Hard to imagine that you couldn't find anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards

Well, if I'd had the name to start with, it would have been different!

[smc]

Originally Posted by Florian

Well, if I'd had the name to start with, it would have been different!

No name required. All you needed to do was Google the following:

transsexual tennis player

The link is the first to come up!