a very small number of British doctors. None became more influential – or more notorious – than Dr John Randell, who practised at the very first specialist gender identity clinic, which opened that same year at Charing Cross Hospital in London. The vast majority of British people who medically transitioned between 1960 and 1980 will have had some direct personal contact with John Randell; all will have heard of him. Most British memoirs by well-known trans people – for example those of the travel writer Jan Morris and the transsexual Bond girl and Playboy model Caroline Cossey – mention him.
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