Author, Transsexual pioneer. She was an intersexed transsexual woman born Gordon Langley Hall in Sussex (some sources say 1937, despite her obituary say she was 77 years old at the time of her death) as the illegitimate son of Vita Sackville-West's chauffeur and another servant. She was raised by her grandmother and then adopted by Margaret Rutherford and her husband Stringer Davis in 1962. Then, after having one of the first sex-change operations in America, she married a black chauffeur in Charleston, in one of the first interracial marriages in South Carolina. She published a biography about Margaret Rutherford entitled "Margaret Rutherford: A Blythe Spirit" in 1983. When she died in Charleston, she was cremated and her ashes divided in three parts. One portion was buried in England, in her birthtown, another went to a friend in New Hampshire, who intended to create a shrine with his allowance and the third part went to her daughter Natasha.
Author, Transsexual pioneer. She was an intersexed transsexual woman born Gordon Langley Hall in Sussex (some sources say 1937, despite her obituary say she was 77 years old at the time of her death) as the illegitimate son of Vita Sackville-West's chauffeur and another servant. She was raised by her grandmother and then adopted by Margaret Rutherford and her husband Stringer Davis in 1962. Then, after having one of the first sex-change operations in America, she married a black chauffeur in Charleston, in one of the first interracial marriages in South Carolina. She published a biography about Margaret Rutherford entitled "Margaret Rutherford: A Blythe Spirit" in 1983. When she died in Charleston, she was cremated and her ashes divided in three parts. One portion was buried in England, in her birthtown, another went to a friend in New Hampshire, who intended to create a shrine with his allowance and the third part went to her daughter Natasha.
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