The Global Christines: surgical transition in the 1950s

See also Timeline of transgender surgery to 1975 . The term is Howard Chiang ’s and refers to the sequence of publicised transgender surgeries in the first half of the 1950s when Christine Jorgensen became the most publicised, and some of the other pioneers, especially in Mexico and Taiwan, were referred to as ‘Christines’. The trans women in this period were usually regarded as the ‘first’.…