The story of Charlotte McLeod was first covered in the 1955 Danish book "Da Karl blev Karla: En dansk læges bedrift" (When Karl Became Karla: A Danish Doctor's Achievement) by Bent Rosenwein.
I found a fantastic article about her on Transas City: "Charlotte McLeod was the second transsexual American woman of the modern era, having had her sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) in Denmark in 1953, the year after Christine Jorgensen did. When Charlotte arrived in Denmark she discovered that the furor over Christine’s surgery had led to a moratorium on new SRS procedures, unless the process of conversion had already started.
Charlotte, near-suicidal with gender dysphoria and not to be deterred, found a discredited doctor who performed a botched SRS on his kitchen table. After nearly bleeding to death over the next two weeks, Charlotte was finally admitted into the Danish program and was given her surgeries."
Available via transascity.org
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