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Historical Bibliography Updated: May 11, 2020

The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.

Publication Details

London: Bloomsbury, 2007 CE.

A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The book describes how Dillon later fell in love with a male-to-female transsexualRoberta Cowell, who was at the time the only other transsexual in Britain.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#11361
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/13560
Author Bio Linkwikipedia ↗
External URLthe-first-manmade-man-the-story-of-two-sex-changes-one-love-affair-and-a-twentiethcentury-medical-revolution

Geographic Context

Publication place: London