Annette Bening is reportedly going to pay for her son’s surgery. Stephen Ira, aka Kathlyn Beatty, is only 18. Is this too early for a full-on sex change? Or is it perfect to have the freedom to choose to stop living in a body he experiences as foreign because he has wealthy parents? 
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