Michael Dillon: ‘First trans man to medically transition’ became a monk after his heart was broken

Laurence Michael Dillon was the first trans man on record to undergo gender-affirming surgery.

More commonly known as just Michael Dillon, he was a doctor, philosopher, poet and seeker of spiritual enlightenment.

His quest for self-understanding and freedom led him to transition, leave behind his previous life and begin anew as a Buddhist monk in India. 

Born in May 1915 in Kensington, west London, Dillon grew up in an Anglo-Irish family who were heirs to an aristocratic title: the baronetcy of Lismullen in County Meath, Ireland. 

He was raised with his older brother by their two aunts in Folkestone and attended St Anne’s College, which, at the time, was a women-only college at the University of Oxford.

Dillon was aware of his trans identity from

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