Colorado transgender photographer focuses on family, identity
Posted: 05/12/2012 01:00:00 AM MDT
By Colleen O'Connor
The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20606569/colorado-transgender-photographer-focuses-family-identityFive years ago, when Steve and Debbie Crecelius awaited results of his kidney stone ultrasound, they weren't expecting earth-shattering news.
But what the technician told them rocked their world.
"She said, 'You're female,' " said Steve, a prominent local photographer who has worked with clients ranging from Harrison Ford to the city of Glendale.
The medical discovery that he is intersex — born with a mix of anatomical sex traits, so biological gender cannot be classified as either male or female — led to a flood of revelations that would refine and redefine their 25-year marriage.