Re: Jan Morris (Thanks ETMN!)
In the 1950s, Casablanca was the place to go for the “sex change” services of Dr. Georges Burou (1910 – 1987) Burou developed a technique to create a vagina using a live graft taken from the penile skin, and continued to refine and improve it.
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Previously, vaginoplasty, where it was done in the US had taken skin from the patient's thigh to construct the vagina. However returning patients who had had surgery from Dr Burou were able to demonstrate the advantages of Burou's penile inversion method. Dr Edgerton adopted and adapted this method. When he was contacted by Dr Stanely Biber in 1968, this was the method that was recommended.
Of the three types of vaginoplasty performed today on trans patients, Burou’s “penile inversion” is still the most widely used. By 1973, Burou had performed over 3000 MTF operations. Stanley Biber, working from diagrams sent by Edgerton outlining Burou’s procedure performed his first sex change surgery in 1969* in Trinidad, Colorado and is estimated to have performed around 4000 such operations. (including mine in 1977!!)
In 1974, Morris published the book Conundrum. I read it and couldn’t relate because we're different "types" but there really wasn’t much else available back then.
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In the 1950s, Casablanca was the place to go for the “sex change” services of Dr. Georges Burou (1910 – 1987) Burou developed a technique to create a vagina using a live graft taken from the penile skin, and continued to refine and improve it.
Previously, vaginoplasty, where it was done in the US had taken skin from the patient's thigh to construct the vagina. However returning patients who had had surgery from Dr Burou were able to demonstrate the advantages of Burou's penile inversion method. Dr Edgerton adopted and adapted this method. When he was contacted by Dr Stanely Biber in 1968, this was the method that was recommended.
Of the three types of vaginoplasty performed today on trans patients, Burou’s “penile inversion” is still the most widely used. By 1973, Burou had performed over 3000 MTF operations. Stanley Biber, working from diagrams sent by Edgerton outlining Burou’s procedure performed his first sex change surgery in 1969* in Trinidad, Colorado and is estimated to have performed around 4000 such operations. (including mine in 1977!!)
Quote:Jan Morris, who arrived in 1972, refers to Burou only as "Dr B--". She was two weeks in his clinic:Zagria
"I did not know his address, but when I arrived in Casablanca I looked him up in the telephone book, and was told to come round to his clinic next afternoon. ... He was exceedingly handsome. He was small, dark, rather intense of feature, and was dressed as if for some kind of beach activity. He wore a dark blue open-necked shirt, sports trousers and games shoes, and he was very bronzed. He welcomed me with a bemused smile, as though his mind were in St Tropez. What could he do for me, he asked? I told him I thought he probably knew very well. 'Ah, I think that's so. You wish the operation. Very well, let us see you.' He examined my organs. He plumped my breasts - 'très, très bons'. He asked if I was an athlete. 'Very well,' he said, 'come in this evening, and we shall see what we can do. You know my fee? Ah well, perhaps you will discuss it with my receptionist - bien, au revoir, until this evening!' "
In 1974, Morris published the book Conundrum. I read it and couldn’t relate because we're different "types" but there really wasn’t much else available back then.
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