[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] 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.

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