I hope she went back to that same drugstore for refills with ever increasing wild stories that her experiments were getting. “You would not believe the size of our test rabbits, you could feed a whole family with one.”

Christine Jorgensen. She was so famous (or infamous, depending) for her transition that a sex change operation was, for a while, known colloquially as “getting a Christine”.

Just one chapter in the never-ending Saga of “Be gay, do crime”