Georgina Turtle - Over the Sex Border

1963, English, Georgina Somerset, Georgina Turtle, UK,

The author of the book, Georgina Carol Somerset, (1923–2013), born George Turtle, a transgender woman who claimed to be intersex, was a British dentist and Royal Navy officer. This is her first publication. In 1992, she authored her second book "A Girl Called Georgina".

She was the first openly intersex person in the United Kingdom and the first intersex woman to be married in the Church of England. She felt female from a young age, so in 1957 she decided to undergo gender reassignment surgery, after being rejected by the eminent plastic surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, as she had turned up to her appointment in male clothes.

In 1960, she got a new birth certificate with her chosen name of Georgina Carol Turtle and her sex as female. In 1962, she married Christopher Somerset in St Margaret's, Westminster, London, which made her the first known woman to marry in a church after officially changing sex. Georgina died on 30 November 2013.

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