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by Phoebe Smith (Author)
Transsexual Pioneer At two o'clock in the morning of January 31, 1969, I walked across the Mexican border alone into Tijuana. My purpose sex-change surgery. This book is an account of the events of my life leading up to that trip and afterwards. Before I became aware of Christine Jorgensen, I didn't know there was another person in the world like me. I was in my mid-teens when I first heard of sex-change surgery. I spent years searching for information and a doctor who could and would perform the operation. I was 29 years old when I had the surgery. With no ID, birth certificate or record of any kind to document my existence, I faced many obstacles in my new life. I worked for the State of Georgia thirty years, retiring in 2000.
Author Biography
I was born a sharecroppers son in 1939. I had sex-change surgery in 1969. I worked for the State of Georgia thirty years; retiring in 2000. I wrote and self-published a book (PHOEBE) about my life in 1979. I created and published a internationally circulated newsletter THE TRANSSEXUAL VOICE in 1981. I published the newsletter 14 years.
