that, between Jorgensen’s sex change in 1952 and death from bladder cancer in 1989, the sine qua non of womanhood in American law and practice changed. As doctors, journalists and lawyers wrote and talked about Jorgensen and other transsexuals, they spun into being a new way of thinking about what it meant to be a woman. No longer was it possession of the type of body that can become pregnant; now it was the ability to have receptive heterosexual sex, twinned with an inner sense of being female, something like a subjective version of John Money’s gender roles.
