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Ovida Delect - La prise de robe, itinéraire d'une transsexualité...

Original title: "La prise de robe, itinéraire d'une transsexualité vécue" (Dressing up, route of a lived transsexuality). The book was the first autobiography written by Ovida Delect.

According to Wikipedia, Ovida Delect (1926-1996) was a French poet, politician, and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. In February 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo for being a member of the National Front, a movement created by the French Communist Party (PCF). She was tortured and deported to a German concentration camp.

After the war, she finished her university education and became a writer. In 1952, she met her future wife Huguette, a kindergarten teacher from Sarthe. They had a son, Jean-Noel. In 1953, Ovida read about the transition of Christine Jorgensen in the press and recognized the similarity between their lives. At the beginning of the 1960s, Delect, under her birth name Jean-Pierre Voidies, became mayor of Freneuse, a small town in Île-de-France. She transitioned socially into a female at the age of 55 and continued to live with Huguette Voidies, her wife, and their son in Saint Pierre Alizay. She died on 9 October 1996.


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