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* 1978: Lou Sullivan begins taking hormones  
 
* 1978: Lou Sullivan begins taking hormones  
 
* 1980: Lou Sullivan has chest surgery
 
* 1980: Lou Sullivan has chest surgery
* 1986: Lou Sullivan has phalloplasty
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* 1986: Lou Sullivan has "genitalplasty"
  
  
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Image:Lou-post-op-healed-scars.JPG|Lou's healed scars 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
 
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|[ Video: Lou Sullivan's Top Surgery]
 
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Image:Lou-left-testicle-surgery.JPG|After left testicle surgery
 
Image:Lou-left-testicle-surgery.JPG|After left testicle surgery
 
Image:Lou-post-bottom-surgery.JPG|After bottom 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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Revision as of 21:16, 20 February 2010

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

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

Lou Sullivan's Top Surgery Photos: 1980-1982

Lou Sullivan Reflects on His Top Surgery: 1988


Bottom Surgery

Newsletter Information

Lou Sullivan's Bottom Surgery Photos

Lou Sullivan Reflects on "Genitalplasty": 1988


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