Dawn Langley Simmons

Dawn Langley Simmons

1922-10-16
77 (2000-09-18)
Kent, England

Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons was an English author and biographer. Simmons lived her first decades as a boy.

Kent, England

Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons was an English author and biographer. Simmons lived her first decades as a boy.

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Dawn: A Charleston Legend 2022 (8)

In 1968, Gordon Langley Hall claimed he was a woman misdiagnosed as male at birth because of a genital defect. To correct this, Gordon underwent one of the first sex reassignment surgeries in the United States. Her subsequent marriage to a black auto mechanic and the mysterious birth of their daughter Natasha sent Charleston, SC society into a fury and cast serious doubts on the truth behind Dawn’s story.