Google is celebrating Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy's birthday with a ladybug doodle-Google honors Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy with Ladybug Doodle
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Google is celebrating Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy's birthday with a ladybug doodle.
Today on 23rd August, host Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, fondly known as Ladybug, will have already celebrated her 91st birthday and is being honored with a very beautiful Google Doodle to mark the occasion. Today's doodle pays tribute to a woman who was born male and who had to live and suffer for many years with the "wrong" sex. She is still regarded as one of the most famous transgender people in France today.
In tribute to Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, a Google Doodle shows the artist during one of her shows. We see a beautiful woman, where appearance plays a very important role, yet clearly possesses masculine features.
Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy stands on stage as Ladybug in front of a red curtain and possibly gives a cross-dressing performance. The interesting detail is the little lady's finger that she wears on the back of her hand. It's actually like what she hid during one of her first shows: a red dress and black polka dots. When the public asked her what her name was, she replied "Ladybug" at first. Thus was born the name of her artist, which she has used throughout her life and under which many French people know her today.
Today, Google's inscription once again appears clearly legible on the back screen of Cokinelle. It's a bit artistic and split in half so that the artist himself doesn't hide from it or hide one letter by letter.
Found a hard life back
Coccinelle was born Jacques-Charles Dufresnoy on 23 August 1931 in Paris. Later, Jacques became Jacqueline and Charles Charlotte - which already explains their different names. It is said that he soon noticed that he was born in the wrong body or with the wrong gender and always felt like a girl. This prompted Dufresnoy to wear women's clothing more and more often and make-up accordingly. In France at the time, there was still so much anger at this that he found himself facing many enemies.
Disguised as a woman, she began a successful career with cross-dressing shows that, as everyone knows, are based on the fact that men dress up and present themselves as women in exaggerated ways. We do. There was no other option as sex reassignment operations were banned in France under the penalty of sanctions. Thanks to a beneficial morphology that may not have been as masculine, taking the hormone estrogen still made it possible to achieve some results in terms of physiological changes.
A few years later, there was still the possibility of a gender change, which could be done in Casablanca. The ladybug wouldn't hesitate for a second and start over. When she returned to France, already a star at the time, her gender change caused a huge scandal. But this thing has made him famous even today.
As well as being the first French person to undergo gender confirmation surgery, Cokinel also became the first transgender person to be legally married in France. Although same-sex marriage was not legalized in France until 2013, Coccinelle was accepted as a woman and allowed to marry sports journalist Francis Bonnet in 1960.
They were even allowed to marry in the church, on the condition that they would be re-baptized as Jacqueline. She married twice more in her life, to a Paraguayan dancer named Mario Costa, and finally to transgender activist Thierry Wilson. Coccinelle and Wilson then founded the organization Devenir Femme, which aims to provide support to transgender people wishing to undergo gender confirmation surgery. She also contributed to the creation of the Support, Research, and Information Center on Transsexuality and Gender Identity.
Much of the information available online about Coccinelle's life after his death from a stroke in Marseilles in 2006, as well as his eponymous autobiography from 1987, comes. But his legacy lives on through his captivating films, images, and his status as a pioneer for LGBTQ people in France.
