Coccinelle

Coccinelle (born in 1931) became the first French celebrity to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1958 when she sought help frompioneering French gynecologist and surgeon Georges Burou at his clinic, Clinique du Parc, in Casablanca, Morocco. “Dr. Burou rectified the mistake nature had made and I became a real woman, on the inside as well as the outside,” Coccinelle later wrote of the surgery in her 1987 autobiography,Coccinelle par Coccinelle. “After the operation, the doctor just said, 'Bonjou