Marilyn Manson undergoes sex change

It was the official Manson website which broke the news on Monday, March 31st with the simple headline "Marilyn Manson undergoes sex change". In a press release issued later that day to a select group of journalists Manson explained that the sex change would come as a real shock to many but no to his closest friends such as John 5 and Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. (aka Madonna Wayne Gacy) who - and we quote - "always respected the feminine side of me". Still according to the rather brief press message, the facial operation was done in Buenos Aires at a health care provider devoted exclusively to transsexual and transgender patients. The other operations were executed in Germany, supposedly at the Klinik Sans Souci (what's in a name).

Manson who usually has no problem with public attention now asks the press for some respect for his privacy: "On due time you will be given the opportunity to talk to me about this drastic decision which will change my whole live as a human being and as a performer." Or as Dita Von Teese says in a reaction: "The name and manners were already there, the body has followed..."

Below is the video message Marilyn Manson posted on the official Transgender Forum: