A Canadian man in his sixties who abandoned his wife and children to live as a six-year-old girl is currently promoting his memoir about his transition. Stefonknee Wolscht, formerly known as Paul Andrew Wolscht, is a father to seven children and was married to his wife for 23 years before claiming to be transgender in 2009.
According to Wolscht’s website, Holding On by a Thread is described as a “gripping memoir” that recounts the “turbulent journey” of his life. The book was published in June and the hardcover version retails for just over $50 USD on Amazon, but has also been stocked at Barnes & Noble and will be soon available at Waterstones in the United Kingdom.
“Holding On by a Thread is a heartbreaking and eye opening memoir that combines the tragic consequences of transitioning from male to female with the hopelessness of isolation and lost love,” reads the synopsis. “Set in the heart of a major city, the story revolves around the Wolscht family and their struggle with Paul’s transgender issues, as she becomes Stefonknee.”
The description continues: “As Stefonknee grapples with her identity, readers are immersed in her experiences of isolation, lost love, and the relentless struggles she faces in her new life as a woman. Through the eyes of Stefonknee, readers are taken on a journey of discovery, suffering, and unexpected tragedy as she endeavors to create her new life as a woman coping with mental illness, homelessness and incarceration.”
Described as a “beautiful autobiography that captures the human spirit through the eyes of a persecuted transgender individual, the synopsis concludes by adding that the book seeks to expose “systemic shortcomings, inclusivity, and human perseverance.”
In addition to being sold by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, a digital version of the book is also available for purchase at the major Canadian book retailer Indigo and other bookstores across the globe.
Since the book’s release, Wolscht, who used to be a mechanic, has been promoting the book at various bookstores, including a launch party last month hosted by Glad Day Bookshop, the world’s oldest LGBT bookstore located in Toronto, Ontario. On Instagram, Glad Day described the book as “[revolving] around the Wolscht family and their struggle with navigating their loved one through transition.”
But despite the heartwarming description, there are some discrepancies in Wolscht’s story.
Prior to “coming out” as transgender, Wolscht was a father to seven children and had been married to a woman for over two decades. In his memoire, he claims that after telling her his wife that wanted to begin living openly as a “woman” in 2009, she demanded he move out.
Though portraying himself as a victim of transphobia, Reduxx has located old posts Wolscht made to social media in which he admits to threatening his wife and children after announcing his gender transition.
In a post made to sexual fetish platform FetLife, Wolscht says that in 2009, a warrant was issued for his arrest in connection to the threats. Wolscht explains he was ultimately detained by York Regional Police on seven charges following a report being filed by his wife.
“I was charged with uttering threats because, in a moment of despair and frustration, I wrote a note to my wife that stated, should she separate me from my children and not play fair, I would fight her for everything and burn down our house.”
Despite this admission, Wolscht reasserts that he believed he was being discriminated against for being transgender. He adds that he believes his wife and York police were “teaming up” and conspiring to prevent him from accessing his children, and that the Newmarket Court for Family and Criminal Hearings forbade him from contacting his former wife and children.
Though Wolscht claims to be a victim, Reduxx has viewed a public comment made on Facebook by one of his seven children in which she details the family’s side of the story and reveals that Wolscht had attempted to force his children to participate in his transvestism.
“I was 13 when you left,” the girl says. “There were days that if I didn’t want to paint your nails, you threatened to stop helping me with homework. You say that you couldn’t handle the fact that we filed a restraining order. People need to know you can’t get a restraining order for being of a different mindset. You were a physical threat to mom and the day you left, more than one of your children thought you were going to come back to harm us.”
The year after he left his family, Wolscht began surgically and medically transitioning. He moved to Toronto where he lost his job as a mechanic and lived in homeless shelters. He has said that he was housed with five women during this period.
After two years of living in shelters, he was able to secure an apartment, and, in 2012, he was “adopted” by an elderly couple he met on FetLife. The trio began participating in “play therapy,” where he would take on the persona of a 6-year-old girl during their BDSM activities.
“I have a mommy and a daddy – an adopted mommy and daddy – who are totally comfortable with me being a little girl. And their children and grandchildren are totally supportive,” he said at the time, adding that he used to identify as an eight year old girl but was asked by his “sibling” to be six so he could be the younger “child” in the home.
In 2015, Wolscht made international headlines after appearing in a documentary produced by Xtra Magazine called The Trans Project, where he discussed his transition and age regression. Following the release of the documentary, Wolscht briefly went “missing,” with Toronto Police launching an investigation into his whereabouts due to concerns he was in danger.
However, Wolscht came forward to police after four days to admit he wasn’t missing but had been deliberately hiding.
“People have threatened to kill me, shoot me, cut my head off, throw me in the oven,” he claimed. “[They said] that I should kill myself. There’s hundreds of different messages. The worst ones [threaten] to mutilate me,” he said.
Since the documentary’s release, Wolscht has become a vocal trans activist, and frequently attends pride parades and LGBT events in Ontario. Wolscht marched at this year’s Toronto Pride Parade where he carried the flag of Uganda in support of “LGBTQS2I refugees.”
Disturbingly, Wolscht has claimed that he is “welcomed into classrooms to educate children on gender and sexuality.”
In an exchange on X in which one user expressed criticism of Wolscht’s sexual proclivities, he replied: “We have a long way to go. Perhaps I’ll teach a TERFs kid soon.”
Wolscht has previously stated that the thought of being a woman or pregnant caused him to become aroused. During a podcast, he told the hosts he had developed an erection from the thought of being a “girl.”
Wolscht is a member of 200 online communities on FetLife. Among them are multiple groups for the so-called Adult Baby Diaper Lover (ABDL) community. Others are dedicated to age regression, BDSM, crossdressing, sissification, lactation fetishism, and castration pornography.
“I went through a rough time for a while but now I have a loving Daddy who keeps me safe as a femme little girl 24/7, I am where I belong (a girl who becomes a little girl when I need to be),” reads Wolscht’s fetish account profile.
“I really am trying to be a good little six year old girl… but it is very hard sometimes, Daddy is okay with that. We are very happy and we are teaching the world what a Queer Femme Girlie Girl really is. If you wish to meet and play with us, be prepared to immerse yourself into our happy kinky poly family.”
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