Michael Dillon

Laurence Michael Dillon (born Laura Maud Dillon; 1 May 1915 – 15 May 1962) was a British physician and the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty. His brother, Sir Robert Dillon, was the eighth Baronet of Lismullen in Ireland.

Early life and transition

Dillon's mother died of sepsis ten days after giving birth. Dillon, assigned female at birth and known as Laura, was raised with his older brother Bobby by their two aunts in the town of Folkestone in Kent, England. He received his undergraduate education at Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford University Women's Boat Club and won a University Sporting Blue award for rowing. After graduating he took a job at a research laboratory in rural Gloucestershire.

Dillon had long been more comfortable in men's clothing and felt that he was not truly a woman. In 1939, he sought treatment from Dr. George Foss, who had been experimenting with testosterone to treat excessive menstrual bleeding; at the time, the hormone's masculinizing effects were poorly understood. Foss provided Dillon with testosterone pills but insisted Dillon consult a psychiatrist first, who gossiped about Dillon's desire to become a man, and soon the story was all over town. Dillon fled to Bristol and took a job at a garage. The hormones soon made it possible for him to pass as male, and eventually the garage manager insisted that other employees refer to Dillon as "he" in order to avoid confusing customers. Dillon was promoted to tow truck driver and doubled as a fire watcher during the Blitz.

Michael Dillon (I.R.S. revenue officer)

Michael Dillon was an officer of the US Department of the Internal Revenue Service, who is best known for being the only Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Officer to be killed in the line of duty.

Death

Michael Dillon was killed at the private residence of former service employee James F. Bradley, located at 250 S Huxley Dr, in Cheektowaga, New York, where he had attempted to collect a sum of $500 on behalf of the IRS. Bradley had been previously been adjudicated deficient of $2,500, and had subsequently remitted $2,000 to the IRS. An altercation occurred when Dillon attempted to recover the remaining money owed, during which Bradley shot him three times in rapid succession, with an M-1 rifle at point-blank range, killing him instantaneously.

James F. Bradley

James F. Bradley was convicted of first degree manslaughter before the Supreme Court of New York. His conviction was upheld on appeal by the Supreme Court Appellate Division, but was reversed by the Court of Appeals of New York.

Michael O. Dillon

Michael Owen Dillon (born 1947) is an American botanist with the botanical abbreviation M.O.Dillon. He received his BA and MA from the University of Northern Iowa and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He acts as Emeritus Curator of the Field Museum of Natural History and is noted for research on Andean flora. He also contributed work for the Magnolia Society.

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Michael Dillon (disambiguation)

Michael Dillon (1915–1962) was a British physician and the first female-to-male transsexual to undergo phalloplasty.

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