![]() Morris later wrote a memoir that opens with the sentence, “I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl.” He was in his mid-forties when he underwent surgery to become the woman he was already certain he was.īut has Jan Morris (now over ninety) ever actually been a woman? And was it even possible for James Morris to have been “born into the wrong body”? Today, when the number of Jan Morrises has proliferated and an ideological transgender movement has begun to force changes in law and policy, more and more people are saying “yes, of course” in answer to both these questions. ![]() The first time I ever heard the expression “sex-change operation” was in the 1970s, when I learned that the noted travel writer James Morris had had such an operation and henceforth was to be known as Jan Morris. ![]()
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