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Sex Change Anniversary

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Published December 1, 2002 at 10:00 PM MST

Fifty years ago today came the news that an American named George Jorgensen had undergone a successful sex-change operation in Denmark. The story of Christine Jorgensen helped change the way some Americans think about gender.

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