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Title: WI- Crash motivates lone survivor to change genders
Post by: SandraJane on November 03, 2012, 10:34:25 PM
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Crash motivates lone survivor to change genders

By Tom Murray | CREATED Nov. 2, 2012


http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/177059271.html (http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/177059271.html)


MILWAUKEE- In a flash earlier this year, a family was changed forever.

Police say an oncoming driver suffered a seizure, lost control and slammed into a car innocently waiting at a stop sign.  Four family members were in the struck car.  The crash in New Berlin killed Patti White, her brother Tom Wagner and Tom's wife, Cathy.

There is a surviving sibling.  Tom and Patti's brother, William Wagner, lived.

"I remember pulling out of the driveway and the next thing I remember is someone cutting my seatbelt and my brother's dead next to me," the survivor said.

That terrible collision not only inspired a life change, it has moved William to change genders.  He said he legally changed his name to Justine April.
Title: Re: WI- Crash motivates lone survivor to change genders
Post by: justmeinoz on November 04, 2012, 04:35:00 AM
Similar case in a book I have where a woman was in a coma after a MVA, and when she awoke her family were so relieved to have her alive they didn't argue about her decision to transition in the least.
Title: Re: WI- Crash motivates lone survivor to change genders
Post by: Padma on November 04, 2012, 04:45:49 AM
Good to see all the positive comments there (vastly outnumbering the two idiot trolls).