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Early life. Richards was born Richard Raskin on August 19, 1934, in New York City and raised, as she put it, as "a nice Jewish boy" in Forest Hills, Queens. Her father David Raskind was an orthopedic surgeon, and her mother was one of the first female psychiatrists in the United States, in addition to being a professor at Columbia University.
Feb 8, 2007 · Dr. Richard Raskind was a champion tennis player and a renowned eye surgeon with a wife and son. But in 1975, Renee Richards emerged, after a highly publicized sex reassignment operation.
By Joyce Wadler. Feb. 1, 2007. CARMEL, N.Y. BEFORE Dr. Renée Richards had a sex-change operation, when she was an up-and-coming eye doctor and one of the top-ranked amateur tennis players in the ...
Jun 25, 2015 · Born Richard Raskind, tennis was a huge part of her life from an early age. She was captain of the men's tennis team at Yale University and later, while serving in the Navy as a medic, won the All ...
Mar 31, 2021 · In 1953, Richards had entered the men’s draw at the U.S. Nationals under the name Richard Raskind. Twenty-four years later—and two years after having sexual-reassignment surgery and changing ...
May 26, 2015 · Dr. Renée Richards has lived forty years of her life as a woman and forty years as a man. It was a warm August day in 1975 when Dr. Richard Raskind walked into a New York City hospital for surgery.
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Aug 9, 2007 · NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Renee Richards, the world's most famous transsexual athlete, looks back on her life, she has one regret -- the fame she attained. Richards, who was born Richard Raskind ...
