Georgina Somerset

Georgina Carol Somerset (née Turtle; 23 March 1923 – 30 November 2013) was a British dentist, author, and former Royal Navy officer. She was the first openly intersex person in the United Kingdom and the first intersex woman to be married in the Church of England.

Early life Somerset was born on 23 March 1923 in Purley and christened George Edwin Turtle. Her birth was registered outside of the usual time limit because of confusion as to her sex. Ultimately, the obstetricians decided to assign her male. She was educated at Purley High School for Boys, a grammar school in Croydon and Reigate Grammar School, an all-boys free school. She went on to study dentistry at King's College Hospital, London and qualified in 1944. She left the military in 1948. They married in St Margaret's, Westminster, London, in October 1962. This made her the first known woman to marry in a church after officially changing sex.

Death Georgina Somerset died on 30 November 2013, aged 90.

Publications Over The Sex Border. Victor Gollancz, London, 1963. (Foreword by Kenneth Walker) A Girl Called Georgina. The Book Guild, Lewes, 1992. "A Girl Called Georgina", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Vol. 87, No. 9 (1994), p. 573.