Gloria Hemingway

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Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. Although she was assigned male at birth and lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age. In her 60s, she underwent gender transition surgery, and preferred the name Gloria. A good athlete and a crack shot, she trained as a professional hunter in Africa, but her alcoholism prevented her from gaining a license, and later led to the loss of her medical license in the United States. Hemingway maintained a long-running feud with her father, stemming from a 1951 incident when she was arrested for entering a women's bathroom in a Los Angeles movie theater dressed in women's clothing which caused an argument between Ernest and Pauline Pfeiffer, Gloria's mother. Pfeiffer died from a stress-related condition the following day, which Ernest blamed on Gloria....

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