This photo always cheers me up a bit. It’s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery.
Since the text is a bit small and I couldn’t find a larger copy, here’s what the small blurb says:
A World of a Difference
George W. Jorgensen, Jr., son of a Bronx carpenter, served in the Army for two years and was given honorable discharge in 1946. Now George is no more. After six operations, Jorgensen’s sex has been changed and today she is a striking woman, working as a photographer in Denmark. Parents were informed of the big change in a letter Christine (that’s her new name) sent to them recently.
This article is 58 years old, and it’s more respectful of Christine’s pronoun choices and name than some publications are today. It makes me happy to see a newspaper be respectful of a trans person’s choice of name and pronouns like that :3
Everything about that is amazing…
The reason for the difference in journalism is: News used to be under the control of a free press and free market capitalism. News is now controlled by the government. It will more than likely be written by the left, falsely expounding hyped animosity from the right, for the sake of political competition.
You know, this is the very first reblog/reply I’ve gotten to this post from that angle. Usually I get people just going “man why do we suck now if we were awesome then”, not people taking any kind of deeper look at the situation.
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