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In 1931, Lili Elbe was living in Denmark collaborating with her friend, Ernst Harthern, on a memoir of her life. [31] Fra Mand til Kvinde was published by her German friend and editor under the name of Neils Hoyer following Elbe's death. [60] The narrative provided details of her life as Danish painter and her gender confirmation surgery. [31]
Elbe, who also went by Lili Ilse Elvenes, was one of the first ever identifiable recipients of such a procedure in 1930. She was born Einar Wegener in 1882 and became a landscape painter.
In 1912, Wegener and her partner, Lili Elbe, moved to Paris, France. [2] In Paris, Wegener began to push the boundaries in her artwork by creating more provocative paintings of women engaged in sexual activities and seductive positions. [3] She often painted herself with Lili Elbe or Lili alone either portrayed as a man or a woman. [1]
1931 – Lili Elbe received vaginoplasty and uterus transplant. Immune system rejection of the transplanted uterus caused her death. 1931 – Toni Ebel and her partner Charlotte Charlaque, received vaginoplasty and became first transsexed couple. They were involuntarily separated but lived until other trans women received sexual reassignment ...
In 1922, Richter underwent an orchiectomy, [6] a surgical removal of the testicles, performed by Berlin surgeon Erwin Gohrbandt at the Charité Universitätsmedizin. [9] [12] From May 1923, [6] she worked with other transgender people as a domestic servant at Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research, one of the few places where a trans person could be employed, where she was ...
The 42-year-old was nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper, as Lili Elbe, one of the first known trans people to have gender-affirming surgery.
[21] In reality, German doctors had performed this type of surgery in the late 1920s and early 1930s; Dorchen Richter and Danish artist Lili Elbe, both patients of Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin, were known recipients of such operations, however Elbe died after developing sepsis due to complications from an ...
For the Israeli hostages freed Saturday, the suffering did not end when Hamas militants paraded their frail and gaunt figures on a stage in Gaza ahead of their release to the Red Cross.