Dawn: A Charleston Legend

In 1968, Gordon Langley Hall claimed he was a woman misdiagnosed as male at birth because of a genital defect. To correct this, Gordon underwent one of the first sex reassignment surgeries in the United States. Her subsequent marriage to a black auto mechanic and the mysterious birth of their daughter Natasha sent Charleston, SC society into a fury and cast serious doubts on the truth behind Dawn’s story.

Cast

Dawn Langley Simmons Self (archive footage)

Alexia Jasmene Dawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)

Mildred Simmons Self

Natasha Simmons Self

Stephanie Riggio Bulger Self

John-Paul Simmons Self (archive footage)

Christine Jorgensen Self (archive footage) Pierre Berton Self (archive footage)

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