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On 6/19/12 3:13 PM, thinbluemime wrote:
> 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
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> 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.


A cruel genetic joke, but only cruel in a society that rejects anything 
different.