Around the World in Eighty Years: Celebrating Travel Writer Jan Morris

OutImpact.com – by Lorette C. Luzajic

For a long time, Jan Morris was known as the one who’d had the sex change, though as both James and Jan she was an historian and scholar who wrote some fifty books and traveled the world over. She has joked that when her roll is called up yonder, the papers will announce “Sex Change Author Dies.”

It was more than 35 years ago that Jan braved a transformation that is still little understood today. Modern medicine is discovering that gender is not quite as easy to define -or to occupy- as we have previously assumed…