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   On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:59:26 +0100, More gay crap    
   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.   
      
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