The first man who made a sex change operation (5 photos)

George Jamison became the first Briton to change their sex and has done a huge buzz in the press.

He is now 77 years old, his name is Miss April Ashley. She (he) actress and campaigner for the rights of transsexuals.



At the peak of her fame, she became the model of the magazine Vogue. She managed to seduce such famous actors like Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole, and attracted the attention of loving Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

But her world collapsed in the sixties, when the "friend" sold her story of her transformation into a man from a woman.

At the time, she was going to marry a nobleman. Get married she did not succeed, but the scandal made her famous.

George was born in Liverpool in 1935 and says that since 3 years realized who he really is.

The boy was the victim of daily beatings at school. At age 15, in a vain attempt to become a man, he enlisted in the merchant fleet, but after two years at sea, he decided to commit suicide. He had failed suicide attempt, after which he was detained in a psychiatric hospital.



At the end of the treatment in 1955, George moved to Paris and worked as a hostess at the club Le Carrousel, whose clients were Ernest Hemingway, Jean Paul Sartre and Bob Hope.

In 1960, at age 25, having saved 3,000 pounds, she turned to the surgeon and underwent a sex change operation.



Notoriety and the past still has not stopped her realize his dream to marry a nobleman ... In 1963, she married Arthur Corbett, educated son and heir of Lord Rowallan.

When they met Corbett was already married, she had four children and a passion for torturing women, together, in the truest sense of the word. He loved them to try for yourself.

Arthur left his wife and was not afraid to be detached society by marrying the former man.

Divorce Arthur and attempts to legalize marriage again drew all eyes on them, their marriage became the most discussed and stumped legislatures.



And only in 2004, George was able to legally call himself a woman, when the government introduced a law on gender recognition.

In 2005, she received a new birth certificate, stating that she was born a woman.



She now lives alone in Fulham

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