Georges Burou was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 gynecologist who managed a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco and is widely credited with innovating modern sex reassignment surgery

Sex reassignment surgery

Sex reassignment surgery is a term for the surgical procedures by which a person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble...

 for trans women

Trans woman

A trans woman is a male-to-female transsexual or transgender person and the term trans woman is preferred by some individuals over various medical terms. Other non-medical terms include t-girl, tg-girl and ts-girl...

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Notable patients include Coccinelle

Coccinelle (entertainer)

Coccinelle was a French transsexual actress and entertainer. Hers was the first widely publicized sexual reassignment case in Europe, where she was a national celebrity and a renowned club singer.- Early life and career :...

, April Ashley

April Ashley

‎‎April Ashley is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was the first British person to be outed as a transsexual, which was by the Sunday People in 1961...

 and Jan Morris

Jan Morris

Jan Morris CBE is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.With an English mother and Welsh father,...

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Surgeons, including the late Stanley Biber

Stanley Biber

Stanley H. Biber was an American physician who was a pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, performing thousands of procedures during his long career.-Early life:...

, have credited Burou's methods as the basis for their techniques. Dr. Burou died in a boating accident. Dr. Burou is mentioned in Jan Morris' book 'conundrum' as only Dr. B. Dr. Burou further influenced the SRS career of Okie plastic surgeon Dr. William David Foerester. According to April Ashley's autobiography, when her husband wanted their marriage unnulled as a pseudo marriage between two men, April contacted Dr. Burou to testify or send an avadivit on her behalf. He never responded. According to Ashley's autobiography Dr. Burou's surgeries were performed in a dark and foreboding basement.

External links

• Georges Burou, MD via lynnconway.com