Saturday 12 December 2015

52-year-old man with seven kids becomes a 6-year-old transgender girl

Stefonknee, 52, dressed as a 6-year-old girl (C)Twitter

A Canadian man who was married, with seven kids, has left his family in order to fulfill his true identity - as a six-year-old girl. In an emotional video with gay news site The Daily Xtra in collaboration with The Transgender Project, Stefonknee Wolscht, 52, of Toronto, says she realized she was transgender - rather than simply a cross-dresser - at age 46, and split from her wife, Maria, after she told her husband to 'stop being trans or leave'. Now, Stefonknee lives with friends who she cans her 'adoptive mommy and daddy' as a six-year-old girl, dressing in children's clothing and spending her time playing and coloring with her adoptive parents' grandchildren.
Stefonknee says her 'adoptive' family, which consists of an older couple and their children and young grandchildren, are completely accepting of her identifying as a little girl. She says she's living as a six-year-old girl because it's something she could never do when was in grade school.


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'I can’t deny I was married. I can’t deny I have children,' she says in the video. 'But I’ve moved forward now and I’ve gone back to being a child. I don’t want to be an adult right now.'
In the winter, Stefonknee earns money by plowing snow, and when she's at home with her adoptive family, they color and 'do kid's stuff'.
'It’s called play therapy. No medication, no suicide thoughts. And I just get to play,' she shares.
Stefonknee, who previously went by the name Paul, worked as a mechanic and was a dedicated member of the Catholic church, says she was trans before she got married to Maria after high school, but wasn't educated about what that meant, and was terrified of being different. But while Maria was supportive of her husband's cross-dressing, she did not accept him as transgender. At age 44, after attending some transgender workshops in Toronto, he sat their seven kids down and told them he was a woman. But her wife refused to accept her, so she moved to Toronto to live as woman and began hormone replacement therapy in 2009.

   Stefonknee and his wife of 23 years with whom he had 7 children  

In 2012, her daughter Amanda invited her to her wedding, but only on the condition that she dress like a man and sit in the back of the church, not addressing any members of the family. Fortunately, Stefonknee has now found acceptance at Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, where much of the congregation is made up of LGBT members who have formed a special support group just for her.

3 comments:

  1. this is madness. He is running away from responsibility.

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  2. I worry more about the mental state of the family that took him in

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  3. A man is free to be whatever he chooses to be. He seems happy.

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