As the popularity of her portraits increases, her husband (played by 2015 Best Actor winner Eddie Redmayne) realizes he prefers being represented as a woman, and becomes the first man to
undergo gender reassignment surgery.
Director Tom Hooper and star Alicia Vikander of The Danish Girl — a biopic about Lili Elbe, one of the first people to
undergo gender reassignment surgery — talk to Benjamin Lee about the rise of transgender stories, the controversy over casting cis - gender actor Eddie Redmayne in the lead role and whether they're nervous about how the trans community will receive the film
In 1930 she would be among the first to
undergo gender reassignment surgery.
Based on David Ebershoff's fictionalised account of Elbe's life, the story follows Danish painter Einar Wegener's journey from posing in women's clothes for his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) after her model failed to show up, to becoming one of the first people to
undergo gender reassignment surgery.
But now, with the drama The Danish Girl — a story about one of the world's first people to
undergo gender reassignment surgery — Hooper looks on track to land right back in that Oscar sweet spot.
The Oscar - winning actor plays transgender painter Lili Elbe, one of the first known people to
undergo gender reassignment surgery, in Tom Hooper's upcoming drama.
In the Darkroom — When Faludi learned that her estranged and elderly father had
undergone gender reassignment surgery, in 2004, it marked the resumption of a difficult relationship.
Depending on the game, Poison is either female, a cross dresser, or has
undergone gender reassignment surgery.
Assisted a sport governing body in developing a gender policy addressing when athletes who have
undergone gender reassignment surgery would be eligible to compete in women's competitions.