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Who was the US President during Christine's transition surgery?

  • Harry S. Truman

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

  • John F. Kennedy

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Christine Jorgensen was an American transgender woman who was the first known person to receive gender reassignment surgery in the United States. The surgery was performed in Denmark in 1952, when Harry S. Truman was the US President.
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