Patricia Morgan - The Man-Maid Doll

1973, English, Patricia Morgan,

Full title: "The Man-Maid Doll: The strange story of a man who was turned into a woman" by Patricia Morgan as told to Paul Hoffman.

According to Wikipedia, Patricia Anne Morgan, also known as Patricia Anne Glavocich, (1939-1986), was an American transgender pioneer, businesswoman, and former sex worker who became, in the early 1960s, one of the earliest people to undergo gender reassignment surgery in the United States. She was one of the patients of the pioneering surgeon Elmer Belt.

In 1973 she published her book: "The Man-Maid Doll: The strange story o a man who was turned into a woman", which was not her first publication as in 1963 she was interviewed by Female Mimics ("How I Changed My Sex").

Zagria elaborates more about this fascinating woman in her blog "A Gender Variance Who's Who". "Henry Peter Glavocich was born in Jersey City, and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. His mother left his father soon after his birth because he refused to feed them. At fifteen months Henry was put in an orphanage. When his mother remarried, she took him out of the orphanage, but he did not get on with his stepfather, and stayed with aunts and uncles."

"He met a transsexual for the first time, and then Shelley and another of his friends went to California and returned as women. Pat started taking female hormones, and began living full-time as female. She learned how to have sex with a man without his realizing that she had male organs. She was saving seriously for the $5,000 plus expenses for the operation. She was arrested as a female prostitute, got through the strip search without being read, and declared herself as a ‘boy’ only in court. She was released in that the prostitution law applied only to women. She made arrangements through Harry Benjamin, and flew to Los Angeles in 1961 for surgery with Dr Elmer Belt."

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