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Title: Colorado transgender photographer focuses on family, identity
Post by: Shana A on May 12, 2012, 08:00:00 PM
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-identity (http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20606569/colorado-transgender-photographer-focuses-family-identity)

Five 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.