The First Man-Made Man
The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution| By: | Pagan Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Print ISBN: | 9781596910164 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781596918313 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2008 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine.
Michael Dillon's incredible story, from upper-class orphan girl to Buddhist monk, reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.