Kai Rechynska - The story of Christine Jorgensen
Denmark, 1950. It has been around 21 years since passing of the castration law, which was used to protect society from sex offenders and “liberate” gay men from their homosexual desires. Chris Jorgensen, a 24 year old photographer from the US, is going on a long journey over the ocean to Scandinavia for getting a sex-change surgery and accelerate the development of trans medicine in Scandinavia.
Credits:
Slagstad, Ketil (2025) Standardizing sex : a history of trans medicine / Ketil Slagstad. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press.
Kai Rechynska
"Hi! I’m Kai (they/them), a Ukrainian illustrator based in Berlin. I’m interested in themes of gender, identity, and queer history, so when Ketil Slagstad came to UdK to give a lecture and introduced us to his book Standardising Sex: A History of Trans Medicine, I knew it was the text I wanted to work with. I found it particularly exciting to explore how a scientific non fiction could be translated into a comic."