A transgender woman has left behind her former life — including a wife and seven children — to live as a six-year-old girl with two adoptive “parents.”
Stefonknee (pronounced Stephanie) Wolschtt, 46, says she does not “want to be an adult right now.”
Her new identity expression was too much for Stefonkee’s wife of 23 years, who reportedly told her to “stop being trans or leave.”
“To me, ’stop being trans’ isn’t something I could do,” Stefonknee explains in the below video from The Transgender Project. “It would be like telling me to stop being 6’2? or leave.”
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Now, she lives with a straight couple who’ve “adopted” her as their six year old daughter.
At least one of the couple’s biological grandchildren acts as her “big sister,” although the child is only seven years old.
“Their children and grandchildren are totally supportive,” Stefonknee says. “In fact, her youngest granddaughter… a year ago, when I was 8, she was 7, and she said to me, ’I want you to be the little sister, so I’ll be 9? and I said ’Well, I don’t mind going to 6,’ so I’ve been 6 ever since.”
Though her new lifestyle may raise eyebrows, Stefonknee describes it as therapeutic: “We have a great time. We color. We do kids stuff. No medication. No suicidal thoughts. I just get to play.”
“It’s a fresh start,” she says. “There’s unconditional love — I’m starting to feel like…I’m allowed to be exactly who I am, and I don’t have to apologize or make excuses why I’m different.”
Watch below:
Adam Griffith
What? This has to be satire. This really puts trans people in a bad light. Don’t show crap like this.
Scott Albert Bennett
I just can’t touch this. Sorry, someone with a degree needs to give a clarifying response….
Joshua Ames
Wait, this isn’t The Onion!!!?
Desert Boy
Is this Giancarlo85?
Richard Hall
That’s box full of hair crazy
Tracey Bly
🙁
Saskia Vreedenburgh Brink
Oh there’s nothing strange about this :-/
José Ramón Harvey
No this is a joke…right?
Mike Cooke
what to say UUUUUMMMMMM i’ve no idea
Seosamh O'Donnacha
She’s transchilded. This is nuts.
Gary Hecklinger
Sounds more like a mental issue.. being 6 years old at 46.. yes for sure a mental disorder
Rachel R
Whatever floats your boat. It’s not hurting anyone I guess.
Victor Barry
This is a bridge too far for me.
Babak Bijarchi
No!
Darryl Moir
2024 and you wont have to worry about it anymore.
Miguel Spatti
What the hell
Joyce Johnson
does that mean I won’t have to pay bills or go to work?? yes I agree kinda “strange”
Miriam Macdonald
wtf!
Joe Bump
Wake up you stupid bitch!!! Your a full grown, full grown mentally!! Act your 46 years!!!
Laura Kay LaSalle
This person had 7 children they walked out on. I feel bad for them.
The Trasgendered part I understand. The being a child thing I do not. I mean yeah we’d all like to get a pass on responsibility every once in a while… but this is just outright selfish and irresponsible. Whaddabitch.
Roxann Fraser
It sounds like she is happy. She has a job. Let people be what they want or need to be. You don’t have to agree, so why condemn?
Cory M. Warren
Makes me wonder what in her past she is trying to hide, cover up, or replace that would lead her to want to be 6 again. It’s not unheard of that victims of abuse feel an urge to replace a childhood that was lost of denied them.
Hector Pagan
Um this is too much ur 46 year old adult act ur ageð??³ð??¡
Bauhaus
Baby Jane Hudson, er, Stefonkee.
Giancarlo85
@Desert Boy: Typical of a weak ass like you.
No. I don’t approve of this. I think adults need to be adults. For desertboy he has never had to work… Lives off his inheritance.
You just couldn’t lay off. Some day you will learn.
Dee Stephens
??????
Southstguy
A…abandoned your kids. B…that effing name.
Louis Goodrich
2015 sure has been a freak show. >.>
Giancarlo85
The abandoning of those seven kids gets under my skin. She had no right to do that to her children. There should be a legal option for the exwife in this story that is fully available. In the US, full child support would be ordered by most probate judges.
Keith Croak
That’s even too twisted for my gay self…LOL
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: Correction: family law judges. Probate typically has to do with codecils and estates.
Southstguy
Something tells me Stephanie (I refuse to spell it that way) gets the playtime and lack of responsibilities of being 6, but probably doesn’t have a 6 year old’s curfew and restrictions, etc.
Masc Pride
So this is transageism? I guess if you can decide to switch genders, it’s not so odd to decide you want to change your age as well. I wonder if we’ll be seeing a surge in 46 year-olds trying to enroll in 1st grade…while claiming it’s some form of discrimination if they’re not allowed.
Brian Smith
I’m gay and very proud, however, I can’t even begin to start with the reasons why this is ridiculous. It’s glorifying severe mental illness…
John Paramor
This is a John Waters movie, right?
Brian
Transgenders and transagers have personality flaws which lead to the way they are. It’s probably harmless until it manifests as dysfunctionality. Nevertheless, these people’s personality issues are symptomatic of a wider malaise. When they become transgenders or transagers, it doesn’t really solve their overall states of mind.
Look, if people want to dress in costume and pretend to be 6 year old girls, who am I to say they can’t do it? Do it if you please. Just don’t expect the rest of the world to accept your demand that you are actually a 6-year old girl.
Gloria Cowan
Really?
Tobi
I only have one question, does the Tjr go before or after the T in LGBTQQIAAPFZ?
Giancarlo85
@Brian: Funny how you can throw stones from a glass house. Your personality is one big flaw itself and you suffer from delusions of grandeur.
Giancarlo85
@Tobi: aw look it is someone mocking the entire community. Instead of insulting the entire trans community, can you focus on the wrongs being committed in this story (particularly against the kids)?
Corey Walker
Freak
Tobi
@Giancarlo85: “Alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.”
Wilson W Wong
Gurl, seriously?
Giancarlo85
@Tobi: Right. So you have to insult everyone with some acronym you made up? Grow up.
Patrick Einstein
If human society doesn’t find anything wrong with a man thinking he is a woman to live as a woman, and a woman thinking she is a man to live as a man, then eventually human society will accept them. If human society eventually accepts them, then pedophiles, rapists, beastials, and incestials would protest for human rights for human society to accept pedophilia, rape, beastiality, and incestiality. People think rape, pedophilia, incestiality, and beastiality are mental disorders that human society should not accept, then gender dysphoria is a mental disorder that human society should not accept.
Tobi
@Giancarlo85: Oh, why, what is it today then? *sigh*
Irish Ryan
Looney tune.Strait jacket time!
David Bartlett
well aaawwright Ste-Fon-Knee
Roger Honeycutt
That’s just stupid
Roger Honeycutt
Look out for the guys in the white coats coming to lock the nut job up
Brian
GLBT is not really an acronym. An acronym is a word formed from initials. Four consonants together cannot be considered a word.
Jeff Eiselman
Dees beech ees tweested! 6 years old? Puleeze!
Edson Mejia
creepy, indeed a mental disorder
Ummmm Yeah
Proof they are all a bunch of self destructive delusionals. Drop the T. Drop it now. Drop it hard. They are dragging down the gay rights movement.
scotty
this is the most fucked up thing ive read in a long time. sum-ting wong i think.
Bill Hardie
Ridiculous, get therapy
Clai Green
Well this for sure is a little crazy however the more I think about men that come out at such a late age they revert back to teens or 20s when they enter into the Gay society so I can see this .. ON THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP lol
Rosalynn D'Angela
well this one trumps jenner , a new woman of the year is born,, is it possible his crap can be kept ou of media, leave it to national equire or another yellow rag to sensationalize it
Harlan Snyder
This is TOO MUCH! Get a grip!
Michael Stevens
Nowt so queer as folk
Elizabeth Platt
Are you pottie trained?
Teddrick Booker
This is extreme quackery no matter how you see It. The baby Jane is insane.
Jeffrey Thomas
she sounds like a real asshole
Stephen Meeks
Stupid
DonW
@Patrick Einstein: R.pe, p.ed.philia, inc.st and b.sti.lity all have victims. A person living as transgender does not. I’m not justifying this case — without knowing all the details, it sounds pretty unfair to the seven children. But you can’t wholesale declare all transgender people to be mentally ill or harmful to society.
Stephen Beckett
damn freaks
Bob LaBlah
To each his/her own but I do admit I would NOT want to go out Christmas shopping with her/it. Some things are just a bit TOO much to accept a FACE value.
burningtyger
For God’s sake, everyone lighten up a little! This person has been through a lot and I’m not surprised they might want to psychologically revert to childhood for a while. There are all times when we don’t feel like being an adult, and it’s not imperative that we have to 100% of the time. Don’t tel me that you haven’t al considered starting over somehow.T his is a way of coping and adjusting to her new life, and in time she may decide she can handle the adult world again. Who know,s if she’s lucky her other family may come around.
burningtyger
@burningtyger: And play therapyy is good at any age, might I add!
DuMaurier
@Roxann Fraser:
“You don’t have to agree, so why condemn?”
I agree, condemning is boring. I’m just going to make lots and lots of fun of this person, and send this article to many, many friends so we can make fun of her together.
Ismael Smiley Flores
YEES. these are the stories I wanna hear. Lol
Darryl Morton Mundy-Haase
We are living in a time when people feel entitled to be who they want to be and do what they want to do without considering consequences. This type of “adult baby” behavior happened in the past but was rightly relegated to the shadows of secrecy and shame. Now it is not only brought out in the open, but we as a society are asked to accept it as normal and “celebrate” it as diversity.
sweetbrandigirl2004
This is BAT SHIT CRAZY ! Its Not the kind of publizity the trans community needs that for sure ! I guarantee you it won’t take aweek before this is spread by some right wing nut job to show how Feffin Crazy trans people are.
Giancarlo85
@Brian: And you show you don’t know shit about the English language.
@burningtyger: This person had SEVEN kids they refuse to support and simply abandoned. What have those kids gone through?
@Ummmm Yeah: Not all trans people are like her. Get a fucking grip. Hysteria is hysterical.
Amaurys Arias
Ok, just stupid
William Bryant Jacobs
A seriously twisted mind.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
site is verifiably asshole-ish but if only half of this is correct… Jesus!
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/transwoman-stefonknee-wolscht-lives-life-as-a-six-year-old-girl/
inbama
@Masc Pride:
Yep.
Can’t wait to see her lawsuit to get to use the Kindergarten girls room.
Giancarlo85
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: Calling this loser an asshole is the understatement of the year.
This story on Queerty doesn’t even tell a quarter of that site. So if I read right she has a criminal record, had sex with her “adoptive parents” and was an all around self absorbed douchebag who only cared about herself.
Seriously… Wtf.
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: Oops you were calling the site that. Oh well she is an asshole too. Her kids basically filed a TRO against her. They didn’t want her around and testified against her.
Oona Gorman
You couldn’t taser me enough into ironing those corduroy outfits again!
Vincent Milligan
Ok, now that’s really Fd n the head.
Ives Meagher
Ives Meagher
Since when would a 6 year old…have the capacity of thoughts and emotion, to become a transgender?? At 6 I would be worrying about who took my fuvking toys from the toy box?
Help me Lord…
Sam Raether
All I can say is that she’s happy, and she’s not hurting anyone. It could be worse, but it could be better.
Grace Giles
The reality is NO relationship is guaranteed, spouses die, leave and change their minds. So don’t have kids unless you, yourself are prepared to take over completely. In the end you are the only one that you can count on.
DawnTrans
As much as I try to be non judgmental I have to say this is pushing the envelope for me. As a trans woman I try to be all inclusive even of the weirdest fetishes. Let me be clear age play is a fetish and not a gender identity issue. So what we have here is a trans woman who is obsessed with age play to the point she wants to escape into a fantasy reality for herself.
Being this obsessed with her fetish of age play is what the DSM V would consider to be a serious mental health issue.
That said I have a fetish of being a princess will my prince please come sweep me away? Oh and prince make sure your financials are in order as the princess I aspire to be has wealth beyond mortals means.
Rick Rosio
she can star with Jenner and the Kardashians
Ummmm Yeah
@Giancarlo85: No actually they are all like this person. They all live lies and other people always suffer for it whether it is their kids and wives/husband or every single gay, lesbian or bisexual living in Houston.
BJ McFrisky
In today’s PC climate, a man can be a woman, a Caucasian can be a negro, consensual sex is rape, cops are criminals, criminals are victims, terrorists deserve sympathy, and now an adult can revert to childhood just because it suits him.
Anyone who doesn’t think this is mental illness surely suffers from the same affliction.
canadalaw
I am a family law lawyer, giacarlo and she still would have to pay child support to the ex wife
Gee Rosato
With 7 kids He abandoned
Randy Hill
They might want to rethink that whole “no medications” thing…
inbama
@DawnTrans:
Prince Charming, a fetish?
That belief is drummed into young girls’ heads from day one and probably foundational to Western Culture and central to “Gender” and therefore “Gender Identity.”
I’ve yet to meet a gay man who related to the Prince rather than the damsels in distress or Captain Von Trapp rather than Maria.
aliengod
How incredibly stupid! This is severe mental illness.
Bob LaBlah
A Raggedy Ann doll come to life if you asked me. Disgusting.
Will Glitzern
I’m sorry, but it’s very hard not to laugh at this. But it isn’t doing me any harm, either.
Kieran
Father of SEVEN? What a stud.
Benedict J. Harrisson
Dusty Lee
He is also having sex with the adopted “grandparents”. The same people who’s real grandchildren he plays with coloring books with. He is sexualizing little girls.
He is a fetishist plain and simple. He left his family to pursue a fantastical life with other enablers of which the lgbt community happens to be full of.
Stefonknee (Steph on knee, get it? Barf yet?) is pretty open about all this you can look him up and all of his crazy antics. Look on kiwifar.
Brian
I’ve always said that transgenderism is based on fetish. The best indication is that, when men transition to becoming “women”, they always grow their hair long and wear lots of make-up. Why can’t they just have short hair and wear no make-up?
Transgenderism is a fetish related to personality issues.
Jenuinn
I have a lot of transgender friends and love and respect each of their qualities (being bi myself) but I’m sorry honey, you have no compassion or empathy from me.
The truth is that you left behind your children during your transition phase which is when you need your family the most and visa versa to help your family understand your transition and that it is not a “switch”.
Wanting to be 6 again…thats everybody’s dream. To be young again. But you are 40+, with seven children, you no longer have a right to such a selfish mentality.
Adam Wayne Hrincevich
What a fucking weirdo.
Brian
I remember seeing an Asian male-to-female transgender on TV. He said that he considered himself beautiful because of his long hair. He said his long hair made him beautiful.
I’d say he has a hair fetish.
DistingueTraces
I’ve realized in adulthood that transphobia is an ugly part of my own character that I still haven’t fully processed, so I hesitate to speak directly to this.
However.
I can only think of the dear friend whose transition first brought me to question my own assumptions about trans people, and his response to a similar case — although that case was a trans-species-ist with the soul of a cheetah in a human body.
His response was silence. But a silence that spoke volumes.
Tommy Connelly
This is a mental/fetish issue, not a trans issue.
Jenuinn
@Adam Wayne Hrincevich: @Adam Wayne Hrincevich: who you calling a weirdo Mr Executive Water Boy. Keyboard warriors these days
crowebobby
@Patrick Einstein: You’re comparing things that don’t hurt others with things that do hurt others. It’s like saying if you can own a dog why can’t you own a person.
Jenuinn
@crowebobby: 1,000,000 likes award goes to you ???
ddevine
This is a “NO.” Enough fetish men jumping on the trans bandwagon and expecting to be taken seriously. First Jenner, now this.
Jack Kear
oh brother
Bob LaBlah
@ddevine: “This is a “NO.” Enough fetish men jumping on the trans bandwagon and expecting to be taken seriously. First Jenner, now this.”
THANK YOU. I knew sooner or later some one else who noticed it just as I did would post a comment about it and the comment would get “thru”. I modified mine so much I almost gave up. Neither you nor I are trashing the trans world nor its inhabitants. We’re simply calling a few of them just what they are. I just don’t believe this guys story and stand by my assessment of his appearance.
JAHarrell61
@Laura Kay LaSalle: Where EXACTLY does it say that she walked out on the children? OR That she is NOT PAYING Child Support? From what I read she was given an ultimatum by her ex-spouse. Either conform or GET OUT. Sounds to me like her ex forced her out. NOWHERE in the article does it state that she is NOT SUPPORTING her children. The video also states that she has a job.
JAHarrell61
@Jenuinn: Where EXACTLY does it say that she left behind the children? From what I read she was given an ultimatum by her ex-spouse. Either conform or GET OUT. Sounds to me like her ex forced her out.
Maxie Grant
She’s no realistic chance of passing for a six-year-old. That’s the main thing.
Jenuinn
@JAHarrell61: If anyone is going to give up on their children that easily then yes I say this person LEFT her children behind. Pure cowardice
NoCagada
@Giancarlo85: TOP IT! TOP IT! TOP IT TOOPIT! YOU SO BUTCH!
Giancarlo85
@JAHarrell61: So now she doesn’t work… And any reasonable family law judge would order her to pay child support. How would she pay child support living as a six year old girl? Obviously in this country, six year olds don’t have jobs. Now if republicans had any say, six year olds would have to work for $1 an hour. But that is a different subject. this is about a 46 year old who skirted their responsibilities trying to fulfill some weird fantasy.
She abandoned her family.
And I am saying this as a gender fluid person. I have to work to pay for bills and such. I can’t run away like this from responsibilities.
Zaikheura A'ttyey Tankir Fross
Lizzy we should be supporting her. She is saying she wants to live her childhood because she missed out as a girl. Please let’s not join the hate bandwagon. Let’s support her.
Richard Bradford
This person then will not qualify for social security for 57 years.
inbama
She looks to be the kind of woman the Person of the Year was just insulting.
fatastic
Reading this comment section is the exact reason why i don’t like the mainstream gay community. Load of judgemental hypocrites screaming for tolerance and acceptance without offering the same to those in situations they don’t recognise.
This woman, after 23 years of family life living in the closet, was entirely and utterly rejected by her family and suicidal. She is trans, and is trying to work on her mental health issues in a way that doesn’t involve being heavily medicated, and it works for her. Bear in mind she still has a job, and probably does support her family in some way. Good for her for trying to work out her shit
Giancarlo85
@fatastic: I don’t see any evidence of that. I’m sure her “new adopted family” are the ones paying for the child support she would most likely owe to her ex-wife.
grero
@Rachel R: Not hurting anyone? Except the abandoned children.
Brycedavid
Drop the T
inbama
@fatastic:
And you are the kind of person who sees someone at the edge of a cliff and encourages them to jump because PC nonsense claims they will live happily ever after.
alphacentauri
@Brycedavid: Well said. This is from Toronto Canada which should not surprise anyone as they’ve gone amok with how PC they are.
alphacentauri
@Jenuinn: Exactly this “woman” is severely mentally ill, and selfish.
jantheman4903
not hurting anyone..but definitely avoiding adult responsibilities and decisions.how is one going to transition..and play eight at same time. i don’t think these people are making the right decisions. they could give her a loving place to stay and still expect her to move towards adult norms.
newb
@burningtyger:
Uh, no! Not when a REAL child (the 8 y/o grandchild of his new adopted “daddy”) is the one being used as his therapist. It’s not the responsibility of a real little girl to help this freak be okay with himself and to keep him from jumping off a bridge.
He needs intensive therapy alright, but from and adult who is an expert in dealing with crazy and who gets paid for it.
Someone please call the Canadian CPS on this creepy family.
jimmycurry01
@Rachel R: I’d ask her kids how they feel before making a statement like that. Having a parent come out as transgender can be a challenge to work through, but with love, patience, and respect it can be done. This is something very different. Something like this seems far more damaging to the family and will be much more difficult to cope with.
alphacentauri
@inbama: Well said. He/She abandoned his/her kids and is a piece of shit excuse for a “parent”.
alphacentauri
http://blackcoffeepoet.com/2012/11/21/interview-with-stefoknee-wolscht/
inbama
@alphacentauri:
I was just defending the wife, but I’m not judging the guy.
If he had won the lottery and were running off with some young stud, he wuld deserve that kind of scorn. But this is someone who has blown up his life to live as an unattractive middle-aged woman.
For all involved, this is tragedy.