Dawn: A Charleston Legend

In 1968, Gordon Langley Hall claimed he was a woman misdiagnosed as male at birth because of a genital defect. To correct this, Gordon underwent one of the first sex reassignment surgeries in the United States. Her subsequent marriage to a black auto mechanic and the mysterious birth of their daughter Natasha sent Charleston, SC society into a fury and cast serious doubts on the truth behind Dawn’s story.

Cast

Dawn Langley Simmons

Alexia Jasmene

Mildred Simmons

Natasha Simmons

Stephanie Riggio Bulger

John-Paul Simmons

Christine Jorgensen

Pierre Berton