Are these actual sex change surgeries or simply government recognition? Christine Jorgensen (sp) is usually considered the first one so if there were more before that, why does she get the claim?
I think these surgeries in the 1936 article were performed on intersex people, who had both male and female genitalia so I’m not sure if it “counts” the same way Christine Jorgensen’s case did? They were extremely vague in their wording, even though it was a more scientific article they still shied away from really describing anything but all the examples have the person having “both male and female glands” and the doctors would remove the glands that weren’t to the person’s preference.
It does go on to say:
