Colorado: A Colorado man was no where to hide as he was declared woman when he was admitted to the hospital for a kidney stone in test results.
Denver photographer Steve Crecelius said he’s felt a little different all his life.
“When I was about 6 years old, I started having these feminine feelings, but that was in the ’60s. Wearing my mom’s makeup, I thought I looked pretty,” Crecelius told ABC News.
So when he went to the emergency room five years ago, he wasn’t too shocked when the nurse told him she found traits of both genders in his ultrasound results.
He was intersex, meaning he had both male and internal female organs.
Intersex is a term used to describe people who bear both external genitals and internal organs, such as testes and ovaries.
A person with the condition may have male genitals along with fallopian tubes and ovaries.
But according to health experts this disease could be treated at early ages. Ideally, a team of health care professionals with expertise in intersex should work together to understand and treat the child with intersex — and to understand, counsel, and support the entire family.
“The nurse is reading the ultrasound and says, ‘Huh, this says you’re a female,’ Crecelius said. “It was very liberating. I had spent so much energy after the age of 13 constantly evaluating how people looked at me and acted towards me.”
Crecelius and his wife, Debbie, parents of six children, have married 25 years ago.
She told Crecelius, “You know, when I first saw you, I said to myself, Â ‘He runs like a girl.'”
“I think we were pretty good when she began to mourn the loss of her husband,” Crecelius said. “We worked through what we needed to. The concept of unconditional love is a larger story.”
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