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On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:59:26 +0100, More gay crap <more@gay.crap.net>  
wrote:

> Five years ago, a man married for 25 years who had six kids went
> to the hospital with a kidney stone and left with a piece of
> life-changing news — he was a woman.
>
> Now, Stevie Crecelius — formerly Steve — is sharing her story.
> Steve was happily married to his wife and working as a
> photographer in Denver, Colo., when he learned he was intersex,
> born with both male and female anatomy.
>
> “I had a kidney stone and we’re in the emergency room,” Stevie
> told Fox affiliate KDVR. “The nurse is reading the ultrasound
> and says, ‘Huh, this says you’re a female.’”
>
> Stevie was shocked, but not incredibly surprised.
>
> “It validated everything I had always felt inside,” she said.
>
> In retrospect, the diagnosis makes sense, she explains.
>
> “I remember wearing my mom’s clothes and makeup, very secretly,
> not telling anybody,” Stevie told the station.
>
> “When I was 17, I was working my first part-time job at a TV
> station as a floor cameraman and the person in charge said to
> me, ‘You know, you walk like a queer,’” she added.
>
> “And I thought I was hiding who I was, and I wasn’t.”
>
> So Steve decided to begin living as Stevie — as a woman.
>
> Part of the process was explaining the decision to her children.
>
> “How do you tell your kids that, well, it’s no longer dad, it’s
> dadette?” she said.
>
> But all of them, and Stevie’s wife, were supportive.
>
> “Within a few minutes, all of them said, ‘I don’t care dad; I
> love you for who you are.”
>
> Five years later, Stevie lives happily as a woman. She takes
> hormones but has no plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
>
> And she’s still married.
>
> “I didn’t sign on for this, but who signs on for anything?”
> Debbie Crecelius, Stevie’s wife, told KDVR. “She’s the same
> person she was as a he on the inside.”
>
> The couple still live together.
>
> “She relates to my heart and soul, and I still relate to hers,”
> Stevie said. “And I think that that’s the essence of true love.”
>
> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/father-married-25-years-shocking-
> discovery-a-woman-article-1.1084380



Moral of the story: When the family doctor tells you, in order to save  
your life, he must perform an emergency operation and castrate your kidney  
stones, get a second opinion.