The Most Talked-About Woman in the World: Christine Jorgensen (1926–1989) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about Christine Jorgensen, the shy Bronx photographer who became, overnight and without her consent, the most famous transgender woman in the world, and who spent the next thirty-six years refusing to be ashamed of it.
Christine Jorgensen was born in the Bronx on May 30, 1926, to a Danish-American family, served about a year as an army clerk at the end of the Second World War, and trained as a photographer in a darkroom her father built for her. In her early twenties she researched endocrinology herself in medical libraries, obtained estrogen, and tracked down the…
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