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Judge Disqualify Results Because … Winner of Beauty Contest Is a Sex-Change!

by Walt Bradley

When there’s a scandal after a beauty contest, it’s usually because one of the judges has been bribed.

But the scandal that followed the beauty contest in Atlantic City, Wyoming, wasn’t about bribery.

It happened because the winner, Miss Stephanie Germain, 22, isn’t a miss at all!

Stephanie won the contest after having a sex-change operation in Sweden!

The scandal occurred when Stephanie admitted to one of the other contestants that she’d had the operation.

“I don’t know why,” Stephanie told Bulletin, "but I just couldn’t keep it to myself.

“I just had to tell somebody that I used to be a man.”

When Stephanie told the other girl, Marjorie Sharp, 21, Marjorie rushed out of the dressing room and told the judges about what Stephanie had said.

The judges came to the dressing room and demanded to know whether Stephanie really had had a sex-change operation.

“I told them it was true,” Stephanie continued, "because I didn’t really think it made any difference.

“I mean, the contest is supposed to be about beauty and whether I used to be a man or not hasn’t got anything to do with it.”

But the judges didn’t quite see it eye to eye with Stephanie.

As a matter of fact, they disqualified her and had to have the contest all over again.

“I didn’t really care,” Stephanie said, "because I just entered the contest as a joke anyway.

“It made me laugh to think just a year earlier I used to be a man. And there I was, winning a beauty contest!”

Stephanie used to be Stephen Germain until he decided that he ought to be a woman.

“Actually, I decided that a long time ago,” Stephanie told Bulletin. "When I was a boy I’d never fit in with the other kids.

"I don’t know why, but I just never got a big bang out of playing football and things like that.

"And then, when I got to be about 16, I was really out of it. I mean, I just didn’t like women.

“But you’ve got to understand, it wasn’t that I like men. I mean, I wasn’t queer or anything.”

Stephanie described how he saved up $2,000 by the time he was 21, just to be able to have a sex-change operation.

"The operations are illegal in the States but you can get them in Sweden if a doctor says you’re more a woman than a man.

“So I flew to Sweden and I had the operation.”

The operation involved actually cutting off Stephan’s genitals. A hole was made between his legs and plastic surgery provided him with a vagina.

"After that they gave me hormone treatments. I started developing breasts and my voice got higher.

“Pretty soon I started rounding out just like a woman and the next thing I knew I had a perfect 36-24-36 figure.”

Stephanie described how she had all her body hair removed in a special operation using electrolysis later the same year.

"Then I changed my name legally and I registered myself as a female.

"I sort of felt silly living back East where all my friends know I used to be a man, so I moved out to Wyoming.

“And then I heard about this beauty contest and I thought it would be a real joke if I won it.”

It was a real joke all right, but the judges aren’t laughing.

After all, they must feel kind of stupid if they couldn’t even tell the difference between a man and a woman.

October 2, 1967, National Bulletin

Caption to the left image:

Stephanie German, 22, won a beauty contest and then heard that her win was disqualified because she told a fellow competitor she was a sex-change

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Stephanie always wanted to be a woman, but she had to go all the way to Sweden before she could find a doc who’d do the operation for her