"It is all so clear in my mind - the first specialist examined me - he looked at his records and wanted nothing further to do with it. From there I was taken to doctors and specialists. "I eventually spoke to my parents when I got the courage to do so. "After an incident at school I realised I was different to the other boys in my class. I was developing as a girl not a boy, and the confusion got worse. "When I was around 13 years old I started developing breasts (a condition called Gynecomastia). "It sort of started there, the doubting in my own mind I started thinking something did not add up but I did not know what," she said. "All surgeries can lead to scarring, and to a loss of feeling in and around the affected body parts." When Stephanie was a child she presented as male, however she started having doubts about her gender at eight years of age. "Many people who have had surgeries and hormone treatments have been harmed by them, especially when they weren't given a choice. I was two weeks premature and weighed just two kilos." According to, "intersex people are born with physical features, such as genitals, that don't fit what doctors expect for either female or male bodies." "This can mean that intersex children who are healthy may have to undergo physical examinations and surgeries, and take hormones, to make their bodies look more like those of typical girls or boys," ReachOut stated on their website. "I spent the first 12 weeks of my life in hospital, supposedly because I was underweight.
"I was born in Yorkshire in 1961 to a well known farming family, the youngest of three boys and was christened Robin Vaughan Ullyott." she said. As a result of medical issues Stephanie was experiencing in 2012, it was revealed she was producing high levels of oestrogen the problem was she was male.
"It has been a challenge and a big journey since I found out about my beginnings it really affected my mental health." Stephanie was born intersex, her genitals were modified at birth and she was unaware that the medical procedure had taken place until she was aged in her 50's. Other days I just could not type as fast as things came into my head. "Some days I would open my iPad and my mind would be blank. Thankfully I've had some amazing help." she said. I did not go to school much, so my English is not fantastic. The book took her two years to write and a year to go through the editing process. Busselton resident Stephanie Vaughan has recently released an autobiography about her life titled Half Him Half Her.