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'''Timeline'''
* 1912: First sex reassignment surgery takes place in Berlin
* 1923: Magnus Hirschfeld coins the term transexualism and creates the first modern medical gender clinics.
* 1930: Magnus Hirschfeld helps Einer Wegener become Lili Elbe.  Lili dies shortly after her fifth operation in 1931. 
* 1942: Lawrence "Michael" Dillon, called the world's first transsexual man, begins taking hormones and has a double mastectomy.  
*1945: Michael Dillon becomes the first MTF to undergo sexual reassignment surgery.
* May 15, 1951: Robert Cowell becomes Roberta Cowel, the first person in the  United Kingdom to undergo full trans surgery.
* December 1, 1952: Christine Jorgensen's sex reassignment surgery first gains media attention.
* 1966 Harry Benjamin publishes ''The Transsexual Phenomenon''
* 1968: Universities begin to operate on non-intersex transsexuals
* 1973: Lou Sullivan starts dressing and passing as a man
* 1978: Lou Sullivan begins taking hormones 
* 1980: Lou Sullivan has chest surgery
* 1986: Lou Sullivan has "genitalplasty" 



===Letter to David 8/9/1990===
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Image:8-9-90-p1.JPG|8-9-90-page 1
Image:8-9-90-p2.JPG|8-9-90-page 2
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===Transition Photos===
Unable to trust the medical community for advice, trans men often document their transition through photography.  This not only provides documentation of an individual's transition, but it also allows other trans folk to imagine what their transition could look like.  Below you will find photos of Lou Sullivan's transition.  Donated to the GLBT Historical Society, which Lou helped to establish, Lou wanted his life and work to be able to mentor to GLBT individuals after his death.  While some may use these photos inappropriately, in today's society where so much inaccurate information about transmen can be found on the internet, these photos continue to serve the educational purpose for which they were intended.


===Top Surgery===
'''Newsletter Information''' 
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'''Lou Sullivan's Top Surgery Photos: 1980-1982'''
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Image:Lou-hormone-preop.JPG|On hormones pre-op
Image:Post-op-top-lou.JPG|Lou's profile after top surgery
Image:Lou-post-top-torso.JPG|Lou's torso after top surgery
Image:Lou-post-op-healed-scars.JPG|Lou's healed scars after top surgery
Image:Lou-sleep-beer.JPG|Lou after top surgery
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'''Lou Sullivan Reflects on His Top Surgery: 1988'''
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Image:Louinterview88.JPG|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2j-LOYuHSc Video: Lou Sullivan's Top Surgery]
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===Bottom Surgery===
'''Newsletter Information''' 

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Image:Cartoon-surgery-ftm.JPG|Cartoon FTM Issue 57 Winter 2004
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'''Lou Sullivan's Bottom Surgery Photos'''
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Image:Lou-before-bottom-surgery.JPG|Before bottom surgery
Image:Lou-left-testicle-surgery.JPG|After left testicle surgery
Image:Lou-post-bottom-surgery.JPG|After bottom surgery
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'''Lou Sullivan Reflects on "Genitalplasty": 1988'''
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Image:Louinterview.jpg|[ Video: Lou Sullivan's "Genitalplasty"]
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