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Which US newspaper ran a front-page story on Christine Jorgensen's transition?

  • New York Times

  • Washington Post

  • New York Daily News

  • Los Angeles Times

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The New York Daily News was the first US newspaper to run a front-page story on Christine Jorgensen's transition. The story, which was published in 1953, was titled "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty" and it detailed Jorgensen's journey from a male soldier to a female woman.
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