Posted on 11/27/2007 8:16:15 PM PST by JRochelle
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—High on prescription drugs and four days without sleep, Michael Berke raced his Harley to the megachurch where he'd found a home.
He barged into the church office, cursing loudly and wearing a mesh shirt printed with profanity. In his hands he held a picture of a woman with long, red hair and pouty lips.
"This is who I used to be," he said.
"And this" — he gestured to his breastless chest, bald head and red goatee — "is who I've become."
He was born a man. After a lifetime as a social misfit, he had transformed himself into Michelle, a saucy redhead. Then, three months ago, he had become Michael again — with the financial aid and spiritual encouragement of Calvary Chapel of Ft. Lauderdale.
Now, he wanted to be Michelle again, and he blamed Calvary for making him the man he had become.
Friendship, not sex It has never been about sex. And the new clothes and 45 pairs of shoes were fun, but not fulfilling.
Berke wanted friendship — the kind women have.
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So what did it end up doing? (I’m not subscribing just to read this)
lunatic queer alert!
Ick...
This is what happens when sex is your whole purpose in life.
“This is who I used to be,” ...”And this” ... “is who I’ve become.”
Now that’s just about as screwed up as it gets.
Subscribe?
No need for that.
He is still a guy.
Running mate for Hillary?
Not an expert on this type of “disorder,” but this story seems typical. Seems more like a mental disorder than a legitimate desire to be the opposite sex.
But, don’t tell them that.
Victoria Victor...the story of a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man.
"If I do it again people are going to think I'm even more unstable," he says. His mom and sister stopped talking to him, he says, when he switched back to Michael.
He talks about going back to college to study psychology or maybe writing books about his life. He doesn't work, relying on money from his father and disability checks from knee injury.
Look into BugMeNot to get around the pesky registrations for sites like this.
What a sad, sad person.
Just plain nuts.
“lunatic queer alert!”
Redundancy alert! ;)
“This is who I used to be,” ...”And this” ... “is who I’ve become.”
Sounds like this guy’s problem is not knowing who he is, not what any church did or said to him.
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