We all know the stories of the 1980’s East German athletes and how strong they were and how they got there.  Steroids.  The question is this, can steroids force a woman to become a man?  Yes they can according to Andreas Krieger, formally known as the medal winning shot putter Heidi Krieger.  She was a world champion shot putter from East Germany.  Her trainers were feeding her “vitamins” when in fact they were feeding her Oral-Turinabol anabolic steroids.

In 1997 Heidi went in for a sex change operation and came out Andreas.  He says that he was fed so many steroids that he soon started to have emotional and physical problems.  One of those problems was when Andreas was still a woman, she found herself attracted to other women but knew she was not a lesbian (for all of you politically correct wankers out there, a lesbian is a “woman in comfortable shoes”).

Andreas Krieger is now married and runs an Army Surplus store and has taken complete control of his life and never wants to be looked at as a victim.

This story can be found at CNN.com, [1] Steroids caused sex change.

Okay, so I read this story and it got me to thinking.  How many other females athletes have gone through this same very problem.  I checked online, sent out emails and asked some other folks online and nothing.  But if you think about this, steroids back then were something new tot he world and if he took them for as long as he claims, it could in fact cause his estrogen levels to drop and his testostorine levels to rise.  And you figure over the years that had to really take a toll.  But to cause that much emotional trauma, that was amazing to read.  Again, I have learned something new about the transgender generation.