Christine Jorgensen makes headlines in New York City

The New York Daily News breaks the story of Christine Jorgensen’s sex change (from male to female) on their front page with the headline “Ex-GI becomes blonde bombshell.” This was the first highly publicized case in the United States of a gender reassignment surgery. Over the course of the next year, Jorgensen would become a media sensation in the United States.

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