"Julia Grant (1954-2019), who was born as George Roberts, has died aged 64. Grant was the first "transsexual", as trans people were then called, to publicly share her story on television, and changed the way Britain viewed transgender people in the 1970s.
In five-hour-long film documentaries which were aired as the BBC Two series A Change of Sex, her story gripped the nation, with nearly nine million viewers watching the first episode, "George and Julia", in 1979. The films, intimate, frank and observational, were shown between then and 1999, as new episodes unfolded in her story."
She wrote two books about her transition experiences, "George and Julia" (1980) and "Just Julia: The Story of an Extraordinary Woman" (1994).
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