Caroline Cossey
She was born in Brooke, Norfolk, with the XXXY chromosome pattern, a variant of Klinefelter's syndrome, and raised as male, but suffered bullying in her childhood because of her feminine appearance.
Cossey started transitioning after befriending a post-operative trans woman.[1] By 17, Cossey was receiving hormone therapy, living full-time as a female, and had begun a career as a showgirl at a London nightclub.[1] Despite initial shock, Cossey's parents were eventually supportive.[2] Following breast augmentation surgery, Cossey worked as a showgirl in Paris and as a topless dancer in Rome to save up for gender reassignment surgery. After years of hormonal and psychological treatment, and legally changing her name, shehad her final surgery in 1974 at Charing Cross Hospital, London.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Caroline Cossey, My Story, London: Faber & Faber, 1991. isbn=0-571-16251-7
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://web.archive.org/web/20041206130604/http://www.genderweb.org/abstract/artcles1.phtml Gretchen Edgren, "The transformation of Tula (transsexual Caroline Cossey)". Playboy, September 1991, page 102.
