April Ashley: portrait of a lady
Lovely exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool looking at the life of April Ashley, one of the first people in the world to undergo gender reassignment surgery. It told the story of her life from her birth in Liverpool as George Jamieson, through her career as a model, the surgery and her life as a campaigner. This was set against a time line of trans gender history from a Roman emperor who was assassinated in 22AD for trying to get sex change surgery through to the present day and in particular the change in the law in 2005 that allowed April Ashley, and others, to have their change of sex recognised with a new birth certificate.