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Bike maven Kate Freitag is ready to roll -- into transgender surgery to be reborn as a woman
Freitag, fleet operations manager for Bike and Roll, knew from childhood 'that my birth gender was not consistent with what I believe.'FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012, 4:00 AM
by Clem Richardson
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PHOTO: SHAWN INGLIMA FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSBike and Roll has some 2,000 bicycles on the road during summer months and some 100 employees, a figure that will drop to around ten during the winter, said company president Chris Wogas.
Meanwhile, Freitag keeps the bikes moving year round.
"The good thing about Kate is you don't have to worry about anything as far as the fleet goes," Wogas said. "She also has such a diverse background that she is a great person to bounce things off when you're trying to come to a decision."
Five years ago she had her name legally changed to Kate — she insisted her birth name not be used in this article — because she wanted people to know her "as who she is, not who she was."
She's started taking the hormones and counseling, and has no idea when she and doctors will deem her ready for the gender altering surgery that starts a new life.
"Normally you don't come out with this openly, while you are going through the process," Freitag said. "You find a few people you trust, and you look for support and you look to be stealthy about it. Then one day you're a boy and the next day a girl.
"I didn't want to follow that same path."
