Transgender coming out: TV reporter secretly lived as a woman for decades - now her first appearance

Courageous step: A German TV star who has had a career as a man for decades has always lived privately as a woman. Now she wants to encourage others and proudly posts her first appearance as a woman

• Georgine Kellermann , who made a career at WDR as Georg Kellermann, dares to come out at the age of 62.
• She has long lived privately as a woman, now also professionally.
• Now she finally had her first appearance as a woman in front of the camera

Update from March 24th at 9:10 a.m .: It was a long way for Georgine Kellermann to come out. Now the reporter had her first appearance on television as a woman. She proudly shared this very special moment with her fans.

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Transgender coming out: TV reporter secretly lived as a woman for decades

Essen - end the hide and seek game! The career of a WDR giant was actually firmly associated with the name Georg Kellermann , she was a correspondent and reporter in Washington and Paris, among others, then became studio manager in Bonn, Duisburg and finally Essen at WDR. But what hardly anyone knew: Kellermann felt in the wrong body. Now the brave transgender outing: Georg Kellermann also appears publicly as Georgine Kellermann . A late coming out at 62 that feels so liberating to her.

Georgine Kellermann: "Today I notice what I've actually missed"

She talks about this in a post on “Current Hour” . According to Kellermann, she had hesitated a long time and hadn't dared to do so. "I was always hiding. I am not in the opera, not in drama, not in the theater because I did not dare to go there as a woman. Today I notice what I've actually missed in life. And that won't happen anymore. "

There was also fear that the public's perception of the person might change. "I was worried that people would laugh at me. That you can no longer separate it - journalistic competence and social competence. And that everything is lumped together. How can you still believe that? “, She says on wdr.de. Under the heading "The coming out of a transgender boss at WDR".

Georgine Kellermann: "I knew very early on that you are different"

Kellermann felt that she was in the wrong body during puberty, she continues. "I knew very early on that you were different." As a woman, she only lived in private, her family and friends knew about it. Professionally, however, there was a game of hide and seek. “I have always had the pumps on in the past few years until I went to the underground garage in the studio. Then I undressed her, I was worried that I'd forget it. Then I went to work. I always wore women's clothes, the jeans were from the women's department, the blouses were from the women's department. ”

The decision was made in September 2019. Kellermann could be a woman undisturbed on vacation to the USA . Now the coming out at 62. This is met with great appreciation from colleagues. "There she was incredibly open, brave, asked all questions, everyone could come," said an editor from the studio. Another pays her "huge respect".

Georgine Kellermann: WDR studio manager wants to encourage others

"I still have a lot of catching up to do," says Georgine Kellermann. "If someone has a problem with me, that's their problem." She wants to encourage others. "I hope that then also encourages or triggers something. Because: As free as I feel now, others should also feel. ”

Another very brave step: a sports professional recently outed himself as bisexual.

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