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What's CNN's angle here, that transgendering isn't a matter of choice?
Seems to me the angle is that he was assaulted over time by the communists in Germany, to the point where the damage was irreversible. I suppose you could challenge CNN on their previous stances on related issues, but the article appears to have been written by a reporter in Berlin. His perspective is, perhaps, more logical.
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The photo on the left of the younger Krieger is after massive doses of anabolic steroids.
This is a sad, sad story to read. I am very sorry that as a young woman she was so medically abused.