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Here is something for you Septics to get your heads around. The second gender realignment operation carried out on a British man was in 1960 by a French surgeon in Casablanca. He became April Ashley and was rumoured to have slept with a whole host of famous men including Mick Jagger, Michael Hutchence, Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif as her lovers.
April Ashley, British model and transgender pioneer, dies at 86
She modeled for Vogue, danced with Elvis and became one of the first British women to undergo gender-confirmation surgery.
April Ashley, a British model, actress and jet-set socialite who became known as a regal trailblazer for transgender women, undergoing gender-confirmation surgery at a time when the procedure was extremely rare and the movement for transgender rights was in its infancy, died Dec. 27 at a hospital in London. She was 86.
Her death was confirmed by Tim Brunsden, a filmmaker whose video interview with Ms. Ashley was featured at the Museum of Liverpool as part of a year-long exhibition about her life that opened in 2013. She had been in poor health for some time, he said.
Traveling to Casablanca, Morocco, in 1960, the year she turned 25 years old, Ms. Ashley lay down on an operating table and smiled at her French surgeon, the innovative gynecologist Georges Burou. “Au revoir, monsieur,” he told her before administering an anesthetic. Some seven hours later, she awoke to the words, “Bonjour, mademoiselle.”
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