It was the second biography of April Ashley, for the first time written only by herself. However, the book was pulled from the market, after it was discovered that it plagiarized the 1982 book written by Duncan Fallowell and April Ashley titled "April Ashley's Odyssey".
April Ashley (1935–2021) was an English model, actress, cabaret artist, and celebrity. Outed as a transgender woman by The Sunday People newspaper in 1961, she was one of the earliest British people known to have undergone gender reassignment surgery.
At the age of 25, she underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1960, performed in Casablanca, Morocco, by Georges Burou. After returning to Britain, she started using the name April Ashley and became a successful fashion model, appearing in many fashion magazines.
Unfortunately, a friend sold her story to the media in 1961 and The Sunday People outed Ashley as a trans woman, which stopped her promising career. In 1963, she married Arthur Corbett, a British aristocrat, but the marriage soon ended, giving rise to a legal dispute that ended with the annulment of the marriage in the famous court case of Corbett vs Corbett.
She died at home on 27 December 2021, at the age of 86. In my opinion, she is one of the most inspirational transgender women in the history of our movement. Her story was presented in 'I Am A Woman Now' (formerly Casablanca Revisited), a 2011 documentary about the first generation of transgender women that underwent gender reassignment surgery in the Casablanca clinic of Georges Burou.
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