Monday, March 7, 2016

The Small Town Jew Who Pioneered Sex-Change Surgery

 By Zachary Solomon for Jewniverse   

Stanley Biber’s dream was to become a rabbi, so he moved from his birthplace of Des Moines to Chicago, and enrolled in a yeshiva. But then World War II began, derailing his plans. Following the war, Biber lost the clerical urge, went to medical school, became a surgeon, and, before long, turned into a pioneer in the world of gender reassignment surgery. A classic tale.

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