Meant to be a man: Saylorsburg native finds true self as transgender male
By Howard Frank
Pocono Record Writer
October 22, 2012
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121022/NEWS/210220323/-1/NEWSAlek Wilczek suffered from deep depression for as long as he could remember.
That depression led to a sense of hopelessness and eventually self-destructive behavior.
That was until Alek, born Karlyn, came to terms with what made him different — he is a transgender man.
Saylorsburg native Wilczek is a 20-year-old student at Northampton Community College.
Born with the soul of a male, but with female sex organs, Wilczek's parents raised him as a female.
That discrepancy tormented Wilczek as a young woman coming of age. And it took a chance discovery on a visit with his sister to put it all together.
