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Summary:

This is the gripping story of three extraordinary people - the world's first woman to become a man through surgery, the former Spitfire pilot who became Britain's first man to become a woman and the daring advanced plastic surgeon who carried out their sex change operations in the 1940s. Surgical gender reassignment is now almost a commonplace procedure, but then it was seen as 'science fiction surgery' and when the news broke it was a sensation. Michael Dillon, originally called Laura, had persuaded the brilliant Sir Harold Gillies - the founding father of plastic surgery thanks to his pioneering work with badly injured soldiers from both World Wars - to carry out the female-to-male operation that no surgeon in the world had ever attempted. Both men then helped former racing car driver and wartime pilot Robert Cowell change his own gender and become a woman.

Contributors:

Fisher, John Hayes , producer, director

Blakeway Productions , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Subjects:

Cowell, Roberta, 1918-2011

Dillon, Michael, 1915-1962

Gender transition — Great Britain

Transsexuals — Great Britain

Gender transition — Hormone therapy — Great Britain

Gender reassignment surgery — Great Britain

Gender transition

Transsexuals

Gender transition — Hormone therapy

Gender reassignment surgery

Great Britain

Genres:

Documentary television programs

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed February 09, 2017).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (48 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

974306548

Other Control Numbers:

3366432 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3366432/avon