Jan Morris: Trans writer’s memoir, published 50 years ago, ‘demolishes’ current anti-trans narratives

As a young reporter in 1953, Jan Morris was on the frozen mountainside as she chronicled Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Mount Everest.

But, thanks to Conundrum, a 1974 landmark memoir centred around her experience as a trans woman, she also became a well-known as a trans pioneer.

No matter what topic Morris covered over her long writing career – from global travels to history to recounting her life experiences – she did so with unflinching honesty and evocative language. 

In Conundrum, she wrote about realising at the age of three or four that she had “been born into the wrong body and should really be a girl”. As an adult, she grappled with the thought that she’d “rather die young than live a long life of falsehood”

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