Christine Jorgensen’s story hit the headlines after she travelled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery The tarmac was illuminated by flashes as the tall blonde actress delicately stepped from the plane at New York’s International Airport. Photographers jostled for a good position, clambering over each other for the perfect shot. Newsreel cameras whirred while journalists yelled out questions. ‘I thought for a moment that I had entered Dante’s inferno,’ Christine Jorgensen later recalled.
But, according to Christine’s autobiography, her mother was left shaken by a ‘threatening’ journalist on her doorstep who had heard about her daughter’s trip to Denmark. Florence had shared her letter from Christine in good faith, in an attempt to make the article more truthful. On December 1, 1952, the headline in the New York Daily News screamed ‘GI BECOMES A WOMAN, DEAR MUM AND DAD SON WROTE, I HAVE NOW BECOME YOUR DAUGHTER.
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