Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen

Born: May 30, 1926
Died: May 3, 1989
in The Bronx, New York
Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989) was an American transgender woman who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery. Jorgensen grew up in the Bronx, New York City. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1945, she was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. After her military service, she attended several schools and worked; it is during this time she learned about sex reassignment surgery. Jorgensen traveled to Europe, and in Copenhagen, Denmark, obtained special permission to undergo a series of operations beginning in 1952.

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Movies for Christine Jorgensen...

Casa Susanna
Title: Casa Susanna
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men and part of this secret organization. Today, they relate this forgotten but essential chapter of the early days of trans-identity. It is a story full of noise and fury, rich in extraordinary characters, including the famous Susanna, who had the courage to create this refuge that came to be known as Casa Susanna.
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Disclosure
Title: Disclosure
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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Reel in the Closet
Title: Reel in the Closet
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.
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Christine in the Cutting Room
Title: Christine in the Cutting Room
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Susan Stryker uses the career of 1950s transsexual icon Christine Jorgensen to explore identity, embodiment, technology and representation.
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Title: American Experience
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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What Sex Am I?
Title: What Sex Am I?
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: Movie
"What Sex Am I?" follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
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We... Who Are Sexy!
Title: We... Who Are Sexy!
Character: Christine Jorgensen
Released: April 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Seven effeminate brothers are forcibly enlisted by their father in the army to straighten them up and turn them into real men.