April Ashley Cause Of Death: What Happened To The Transgender Activist?

April Ashley MBE was an English model, actress, and author.

April Ashley was revealed to be a transgender woman by The Sunday People newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery.

April Ashley’s marriage was annulled in a notable court case known as Corbett v Corbett.

April Ashley was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father Frederick Jamieson and Protestant mother Ada Brown, who had married two years before.

April Ashley joined the Merchant Navy in 1951 at the age of 16. However, following a suicide attempt, she was given dishonourable discharge and a second attempt resulted in her being sent to the mental institution in Ormskirk at age 17.

At the age of 25, and after saving £3,000, April Ashley had a seven-hour-long sex reassignment surgery on 12 May 1960, performed in Casablanca, Morocco, by Georges Burou. April Ashley lost all her hair and she endured significant pain, but the operation was successful.

April Ashley Cause Of Death: What Happened To The Transgender Activist?

April Ashley died on 27 December 2021, at the age of 86.

No official sources have revealed the cause of April Ashley’s death. However, there are rumors which claim that she lost her life due to heart disease and spent her last days at a hospital!