Christine Jorgensen Autobiography

Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography
The life of Christine Jorgensen can basically be split into two distinct parts, for they are both entirely separate, and both entirely different. She had entirely different experiences, thoughts and feelings pre-op and post-op. People reacted differently to her as a woman than as a man, and she seemed to have a totally different outlook on life after her sex change.
The first part of her life was that which was pre-op, when she was known was George. George didn’t really know what the problem was, only that he was different from all the other guys, and felt miserable as a result. He knew he had an attraction for certain guys, but homosexuality and the notion that he might be connected to it absolutely repulsed him. He felt isolated and alone, with no one he could really talk to about it. The several attempts he made at talking to doctors he was basically pawned off on a psychiatrist.
The second part of Christine’s life was after her sex change, when she took the name of Christine. Accordingly to her, she had much more energy, and a more positive outlook on life. She no longer felt alienated from the rest of society. Her book primarily focuses on positive reactions from society, although it does describe a few of the negative reactions to her. She admits in the last chapter that the reactions she received ran the gambit. “Some people thought me a courageous pioneer, others regarded me as disgusting and immoral; some of the clergy considered that I had committed an ungodly act.”(308)
After having received fame and recognition, according to her she came out of her shell and through a lot of hard work embraced a career as an entertainer. This was a complete 180 from her life as George, where she avoided attention and recognition wherever she went. I thought one of the more interesting changes between her two lives was that as George she felt her attraction to men as disgusting and immoral, but as Christine she had no...