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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]
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.
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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...
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.
Jun 28, 2019 · Raskind wound up a successful Manhattan surgeon, married a model and, completing a checklist of success signifiers, earned his pilot's license.
Apr 23, 2013 · In truth, behind Renée Richards hid Richard Raskind, the divorced father of a 12 year-old boy and one of the most famous ophthalmologists in New York and a modest amateur tennis player. Yes, two years earlier, Richard had a sex change!
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May 29, 2015 · Richards, who was born male, changed her name from Richard Raskind after her transformation and defiantly went on to take the court as a woman in the US Open.
