Simone-Yvonne von Budzyn was born on 31 March 1939 in Berlin-Friedenau as a boy.
After the stillbirth of a boy a year earlier, the mother longingly wished for a living son. A midwife was appointed for the upcoming home birth. She soon exclaimed happily: "It has a lily of the valley, it has a lily of the valley!"
But what meant happiness and the fulfillment of all dreams for the mother was a trauma for Wolfgang, as the child was now called. Even as a small child, Simone felt like a girl and condemned, even hated, the male genitals.
The father, however, wanted to turn the weak son into a real man and a successful athlete. Wolfgang obeyed and suffered. – Simone took on this ordeal as Wolfgang, because she wanted to suppress and hide her own inner urges and desires for her femininity.
