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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.
Jun 25, 2015 · When tennis player Renee Richards won the right to compete as a woman in the 1977 US Open it was a landmark ruling for US transgender rights.
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...
Aug 19, 2014 · When Raskind underwent sex transition surgery in 1975 and changed her name to Renée Richards, the U.S. Open banned her from playing, saying her birth as a male gave her a competitive edge.
Renée Richards (born August 19, 1934) is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who competed on the professional circuit in the 1970s, and became widely known following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open. [2]
Mar 26, 2007 · Discussing life after her transformation, Richards candidly relates the details, trials, and pleasures of her romantic life as well as fascinating stories about her tennis career, including her experiences as Martina Navratilova's coach.
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Apr 3, 1983 · Dr. Raskind And Ms. Richards. SECOND SERVE: The Renee Richards Story. By Renee Richards with John Ames. Stein and Day. 373 pp. $16.95. RENEE RICHARDS is, as most people know, a transsexual ...
