[Missed Miss]

I can suss it out this way: 8 years ago, the best friend I ever had was taken away from me by her new and abusive hubby and I got so sad and depressed I stopped reading pretty much everything, so, I had to have read this item about 8 years ago, or better. I only just started reading again last summer when she wrote and told me she left him for good and wanted to get back together with me. Since then, all I've read were my Chris Miller stories and about 4 or 5 books on entertainment in general and I know none of them said anything about this subject. Possibly you just never heard of it before a few years ago. It's like how everyone think Christine Jorgansen was the first TS, but that's not true. The earliest one I know of was from about 1942 (if not before that).
Anyway, I'm not trying to start any kind of an argy bargy, I'm just tellin' ya what I know. :-)

Possible, I suppose. I'd love for you to try to dig it up to share.

And the latter part... there were ones even earlier than that. Though most of them until just a little before Jorgensen were all failures. Jorgensen was supposedly the first successful AMERICAN TS... But even that's not true. Not only isn't she a TOTAL success, read her own stuff about her life to see why I say that, but she wasn't the first American either. Again, she even admits as much herself in her own writings.

1942... Botched attempts only really. Before that, same. Even after for a while. It wasn't until I think the 50s that successes started showing up. Most of them just melted into the background. Jorgensen didn't and was the first one to end up in the public eye.

If I could ever hope to find it, if I even kept a copy of it, I would post it here.
The one early TS I'm thinking of, and I even used to know his name (I don't think his fem name was ever mentioned where I read it), was very much successful, but she died about 5 years later (if I recall correctly) from an infection that had nothing to do with the operation.
I DO know that there's a TS on YouTube that has a shop somewhere where she sells TS gear and in the one video of hers I saw (demonstrating how to use glue for silicone breast enhancers, I believe) where she says flat out that as far as she's concerned, this guy from `42 that I'm talking about (and she mentions him by name) is HER real hero and NOT Christine, although everyone makes her out as the hero because she was supposedly the first.