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After a short stint teaching, Hodgkinson became a freelance reporter and columnist. At first, in the years 1966–1970, she worked in Newcastle upon Tyne in north-east England, on the Thomson Newspapers the Evening Chronicle, the Newcastle Journal, and the Sunday Sun.
The first to go was Helen Franks, a dear friend for many years, a vibrant and talented journalist who succumbed to a rare form of dementia that killed her within four months of its onset. The doctors had never known anything like it.
Feb 9, 2016 · Liz, 72, who lives in Banbury Road, first came across Dillon in 1971 as a young journalist trying to break into Fleet Street while bringing up young children. “I was told about this strange...
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Believed to be the very first person ever to change sex by means of hormonal and surgical treatment, Laura re-registered as a man in 1944. Michael later trained as a doctor, became heir to a title and ended his days as a Buddhist monk in India.
Liz Hodgkinson. The story of the world's first female-to-male transsexual. Oxford blue, garage hand, medical student, philanthropist, ship's doctor, prolific author, heir to the baronetcy - and ordained Buddhist; the subject of this biography was all of these, but most extraordinary of all, Michael Dillon, was born female.
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Feb 25, 2021 · If you have any interest in transgender history I would wholeheartedly recommend Liz Hodgkinsons book on the life of Michael Dillon as he was a figure who did an incredible amount for the development of gender reassignment surgery by being the first to undergo phalloplasty.
Oct 24, 2015 · Roberta Cowell was Britain's first transsexual woman. Here Liz Hodgkinson meets the daughter she abandoned, and reveals the truth behind her stranger-than-fiction tale.
