ENTERTAINMENT
December 1, 1993 | HOWARD ROSENBERG
Congratulations! It's not every day that you're part of something historic. "This is the first-ever televised sex-change operation in talk-show history as far as we know," Geraldo Rivera announced at the start of Monday's episode of his 4 p.m. hour on KCBS-TV Channel 2. Even more significant, this is the first-ever column about the response of a columnist's mother and mother-in-law to the first-ever oversold, overblown, overcooked, televised sex-change operation in talk-show history.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 4, 2000 | PAULINE ARRILLAGA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
The young waitress with anxious eyes examined her four customers as she refilled their coffee and haltingly asked whether anyone wanted more tea. There was Elise, a buxom brunet in a crop top and hip-huggers. Kate, a Harvard-graduate writer in khakis, a hand-knit sweater and tasteful pearl earrings. Thea, a graphics designer sporting chic suede boots. And Jackie, a towering figure in trousers and a blazer.
NEWS
January 27, 1985 | S.J. GUFFEY, Associated Press
Dr. Stanley Biber sent away for another surgeon's drawings the first time he changed a man into a woman. That was a quarter of a century and more than 1,000 transsexuals ago, long before Biber could boast of performing two-thirds of all the sex-change operations in the world. He does them here in a remote southern Colorado town of 9,660 people, notably distant from big cities and any major medical research institute. "It's not a peculiar place to do it," Biber says.
NEWS
July 25, 1988 | JOHN JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Margaret Lamacz, a sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, remembers her confusion when she began working with transsexuals at the Medical Academy in Krakow, Poland. For every male desiring to be a Christine Jorgenson, she found five females who wanted to become men. "We were always puzzled," Lamacz said. "That did not agree with the literature," which held that transsexualism was primarily a male phenomenon.