His extensive writings were suppressed and destroyed by his family - only fragments survive.īy 1988, when I began my transition (just before my 40th birthday), there was scarcely more information about female-to-male transsexualism available than there was in 1949. His name was Michael Dillon, and he one of the Western world's first transsexual people, that is, someone who changes sex and/or gender by medical means. He became a Buddhist monk, and died in Tibet in 1962 at the age of 47. To escape publicity, he was forced to carve out a life for himself virtually alone. He received a medical school education, obtained hormones - relatively new substances that were poorly understood at the time, and independently began living as a man in the early 1940s.Įventually, he found a plastic surgeon to help him, and his physical changes were complete by 1949, but his family rejected him. Before the word "transsexual" had been coined in English, an intrepid young person whose family belonged to the British nobility set out to transform herself from female to male.
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