April Ashley
English model, actress, author, and activist (1935–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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April Ashley, MBE (born; 29 April 1935 – 27 December 2021) was an English model and restaurant hostess. She was one the first British people to be outed as a transsexual, this was done by the Sunday People in 1961.[1]
She was also known as one of the first British people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, after racing driver and World War II fighter pilot Roberta Cowell, and the ninth in the world to have the surgery.[2][3]
Ashley died on 27 December 2021 in London, at the age of 86.[4]
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