A woman claiming to be Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’ intersex lover says the media’s portrayal of her has caused her to cry for hours and throw up “everything in her system.”
“I was born intersex and named David Roy Fitch at birth,” 41-year-old Taylor Lianne Chandler (pictured) announced on her “official” Facebook page earlier this week. “But the time I could walk and talk I made it clear I was a girl and dressed as one. In my early teens I was medically diagnosed and went on testosterone blockers, at 15 estrogen enhancers. My birth certificate was modified along with my name while I was a teenager, prior to any corrective surgery.”
According to Chandler, she and Phelps initially connected on Tinder back in September. She says she did not tell him about having transitioned before they hooked up together.
“One thing led to the next,” she said, “and we made love during halftime. Later, we had sex again. The intimacy with him was amazing! It was the first time in my life that someone has made me feel like a true woman.”
Since going public with her story, Chandler has made headlines around the world, and she hasn’t been humble about sharing the articles written about her. A quick scroll through her Facebook page displays an endless stream of tabloid stories and other write-ups about her alleged fling with Phelps.
Some of the stories, however, have not been so kind.
Chandler says she’s appalled by the way some media outlets are covering the story, particularly their incorrect use of male pronouns. Being referred to as a man, she claims, has caused her to vomit uncontrollably.
“In a world of educated people that had all the facts of intersex and what it means and then to sell a magazine say [sic] Michael Phelps is dating a MAN,” she said. “I have cried now for an hour, thrown up anything in my system till I dry heaved. I just can’t believe this is happening in 2014!”
She continued: “I am Taylor Lianne Chandler; I have always been a female regardless of labels and personal opinions. I am not transsexual and I have never identified with the moniker transgender, but intersex is certainly on the spectrum of gender along with them.”
Phelps has yet to respond to the rumors.
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Graham Gremore is a columnist and contributor for Queerty and Life of the Law. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
DonW
Whatever gender she is, she’s a shameless publicity wh*re.
Trippy
If true, I suddenly feel deeply sorry for Phelps. What celebrity wants this type of narcissist for a lover/spouse/partner/fuckbuddy? No one.
jason smeds
I can understand the difficulties that Taylor has been through biologically. She drew the short straw in life and has had to adjust. She’s done the best she can and I admire her for that.
As to her talking about Michael Phelps, I’m not so sure.
alphang
well…spewing out details of your intersexuality as well as intimate details about your relationship with Michael Phelps to the public will get you a wee bit of negative publicity. That’s a given. I’d feel sorry for her but I feel more sorry for Phelps if this is true.
Scribe38
@alphang: @jason smeds: Look at her face. I would be willing to bet Micheal woundn’t bang this chick knowing she was intersex or not. Rich, successful, famous dudes do not bang ladies that look like her. I am not saying she is ugly, but she isn’t the swimsuit models that he normally bangs, and she looks way older than him. I know Mike drinks and smokes weed but dude ain’t high enough to bang her.
QJ201
I call bullshit, she is using “intersex” as a way to avoid saying she is transgender.
tricky ricky
@QJ201: I agree.
CleJoke
Scribe38
@alphang: @jason smeds: Look at her face. I would be willing to bet Micheal woundn’t bang this chick knowing she was intersex or not. Rich, successful, famous dudes do not bang ladies that look like her. I am not saying she is ugly, but she isn’t the swimsuit models that he normally bangs, and she looks way older than him. I know Mike drinks and smokes weed but dude ain’t high enough to bang her.
I BEG TO DIFFER, HAVE YOU SEEN THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF____________ (fill in the blank)
Didn’t we see this drama already in season 2 of Nip/Tuck?
CleJoke
My bf says she looks like Detox from Season 5
Arkansassy
Intersexed or not, I would think Phelps (being an Olympic Gold Medalist) could do better than her.
Harley
I can’t stop vomiting just looking at her face.
sweetbrandigirl2004
REALLY You couldn’t stop vomiting because some media outlets called you a “Man” ? Uh I highly doubt it was the “First” time someone called you a “Man” so to say you “Can’t ” stop vomiting is such a drama filled comment it destroy any creditability you might have ever had. I suspect Michael as popular and rich as he is could find a lot of beautiful Genetic women who’d be more then happy, willing, excited about hooking up or dating, So I highly doubt he “Choose” and middle aged Intersected women as his hook up of choice. Please seek help you seriously need a therapist !!
sweetbrandigirl2004
@Scribe38: I agree with you ! I mean theres not the much pot of booze in the world !!!1
Roan
So……is there a sex tape????
Desert Boy
When I saw her picture I thought it was Adriane Maloof from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Charlie in Charge
Oh lord – so she invents a fantasy relationship with Phelps and the mainstream media has been presenting it as if it’s real. Serious damage can be done with things like this.
MarionPaige
that thang is quoted in the washington post saying it has ““forensic proof” that it was with Phelps. Sounds like a nighmare for Phelps.
““[M]my phone with the messages between Michael and I is locked up in a safety deposit box in Florida. I also have a 17,000-page forensic report showing everything — all the geo scans, the cellphone tower signals, the pings. And they’re coming from his phone.”
kiriakis1
Delusional.
Will L
I call BS on this phony. An attention whore grasping for her 15 minutes.
throwslikeagirl
Ick. Posing for that pic in bed with that smug look on her face says Publicity Whore to me loud and clear. I wonder if Phelps will even dignify this with a comment.
Bob LaBlah
I’ve always felt that Michael Phelps is HUNG and a true freak in bed. This sorry ass bitch, whom I would not be surprised to learn he dumped even though he already knew her past, can’t accept that he was not the meal-ticket-for-life she sure as hell assumed that he was. It must be terrible to wake up one morning and find out you are now a forty-something ass queen with no job skills, talent nor beauty to fall back on. It must have been even worse for Michael when he woke up one morning and asked “what the hell am I doing with something like THIS”.
Don’t worry honey. Every time I hear Phelps’ name and see him on tv I will always laugh at how your vindictiveness brought you nothing but scorn from the same community you thought would be interested in this scam that blew up in your face. Do us all the favor and put the no doubt hidden sex tape(s) on one of the free porn sites.
JPinNC
For a second there, I thought that she was Adrienne Maloof.
Jacob23
So Michael Phelps is heterosexual. Ms. Chandler also is heterosexual. So why is this story being covered on Queerty? Oh that’s right. It’s because “LGBT” has taught us that it is good to lump everything and everyone under the sun in with gay people. We LGBs apparently have solved all of our problems and now we can concern ourselves with heterosexual men and their heterosexual intersex girlfriends.
Intersex is a condition present at birth which is manifested in “genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female.” It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, and being being lesbian, gay or bisexual has nothing to do with having genital ambiguity or chromosomal phenotypes other than XX or XY. To take two distinct groups – each with its own distinct origins, characteristics and needs – and lump them together and tell the world that they are “one people” – is a lie. LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTQQI, LGBTQQIAAP – they are all frauds. Manufactured in the 90s by “queer” activists who were terrified that LGBs were not sufficiently radical and trans activists, who drooled over the prospect of co=opting an larger, wealthier movement for their own interests.
tricky ricky
another article says she was born with a penis but without testicles. then why the testosterone blockers? methinks the lady doth protest too much
tricky ricky
@Jacob23: I so totally agree. although I think they tacked themselves on to the gays because all they were getting was an episode of medical center where after the change all you got was an ugly woman.