By John Mack Freeman
World record bodybuilder Janae Marie Kroc has come out as trans. Via OutSports:
Editor’s note: We share Kroc’s former name as only an identifier to her powerlifting and bodybuilding fans. She is currently living as both genders.
World record holder and world champion power lifter Matt Kroczaleski has acknowledged publicly that she is transgender and has selected the name Janae Marie Kroc.
Kroc labels herself on her Instagram account: “Transgender/genderfluid Alpha male/girly girl Lesbian in a male body.” She has been posting photos of herself on that Instagram account for over a year. It seems she had some facial reconstructive surgery in the spring of 2014 as part of her transition. She has not posted any photos of herself on her “MattKroc” Twitter account for about a year.
More via Advocate.com:
Kroc told her fans via Instagram and in a subsequent statement to a bodybuilding website that she considers herself an “Alpha male/girly girl Lesbian in a male body” and that she is single.
“Being a total alpha male and transgender definitely makes me unique even in the transgender community,” she wrote to Gymflow100, perhaps unaware, as she is in the early stages of her transition, that many trans women adopt “alpha male” roles to mask their genuine gender identity — she’s hardly the first former U.S. Marine to transition — and that there are plenty of trans men who identify as “alpha male.”
“And of course also makes me incredibly complex as a person. I often feel like two completely different people trying to share one body with both fighting over who gets to be in control.”
Kroc, who has three sons, said in her statement she was still undecided about whether to fully transition and live as a woman full-time.
