Dawn: A Charleston Legend

In 1968, Gordon Langley Hall asserted that he had been misidentified at birth as male due to a genital defect, a diagnosis he sought to correct through one of the United States’ earliest sex reassignment surgeries. His subsequent marriage to a Black auto mechanic and the enigmatic birth of their daughter Natasha triggered a Charleston, South Carolina society-wide uproar, casting serious doubt on the truth behind Dawn's story.