Patricia Morgan (transgender woman)

Patricia Anne Morgan (also known as Patricia Anne Glavocich,[1] born Henry Peter Glavocich, 12 March 1939[2][3] – died 1986?[1]) was an American businesswoman and former sex worker who became, in the early 1960s, one of the earliest people to undergo gender reassignment surgery in the United States.[4]

Patricia Morgan
Patricia Morgan, 1963
Born
Henry Peter Glavocich

(1939-03-12)March 12, 1939
Jersey City, New Jersey
NationalityAmerican
Known forpioneering gender transition

She was one of the patients of the pioneering surgeon Elmer Belt.[5] In 1973, she published her autobiography, The Man-Maid Doll,[3][6] in which she describes her experience of early experimental surgery in detail.[7]

References
  1. "Patricia Morgan (1939 - ?1986) sex worker, business woman". A Gender Variance Who's Who. 2009-08-09. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  2. Drag. Digital Transgender Archive. Lee's Mardi Gras Enterprises, Inc. 1974. pp. inside front cover.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. Morgan, Patricia, 1939 March 12- (1973). The Man-Maid Doll. Hoffman, Paul. Secaucus, New Jersey. ISBN 0-8184-0158-3. OCLC 2405165.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Female Mimics. 1. Digital Transgender Archive. Selbee Associates, Inc. 1963. p. 4.CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. MEYEROWITZ, Joanne J. (2009-06-30). How Sex Changed. Harvard University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-674-04096-0.
  6. Stryker, Susan; Whittle, Stephen (2013-10-18). The Transgender Studies Reader. Routledge. p. 685. ISBN 978-1-135-39891-0.
  7. Stryker, Susan; Whittle, Stephen (2013-10-18). The Transgender Studies Reader. Routledge. p. 689. ISBN 978-1-135-39891-0.


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