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Dawn: A Charleston Legend

Release Date:June 16, 2022

Running Time:34 min

Genres:Documentary

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Cast

Dawn Langley Simmons Alexia Jasmene Mildred Simmons Natasha Simmons Stephanie Riggio Bulger John-Paul Simmons Christine Jorgensen Pierre Berton

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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