num_pages: 340
description: In 1951 George Jorgensen, an American man of 26, left for Denmark and returned a year later as the first world-renowned transsexual, Christine Jorgensen. In her own personable style, Jorgensen offers a firsthand account of her ground-breaking life. "Nature made a mistake," she wrote, "which I have corrected."
language: English
title: Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography
titlecomplete: Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography
genres: LGBT, Autobiography, History, Transgender, Gender, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 107
publisher: Cleis Press