Christine Jorgensen and Transgender Reassignment Surgery

In the wake of Christine Jorgensen's transition, huge numbers of people started writing to her doctor who was again Danish to request the surgery for themselves. So many people flooded Denmark with requests for gender reassignment surgery that the government had to enact a law banning it for non-Danish people out of fear they would just be flooded by trans people from around the world looking for surgery and hormone replacement therapy.