Uros Stanic: I'm Changing Gender When I Leave Elite 10
Reality show contestant Uros Stanic announced on the Sikter show that he will change gender after Elite 10 and accused his father of tearing up his referral to Belgrade's Dragisa Misovic hospital.
Uros Stanic said on the “Sikter” show that he plans to change gender once he leaves Elite 10. Kurir published the story with his statements on August 28 at 9:27 p.m., and Informer followed three minutes later, at 9:29 p.m.
Stanic said doctors gave his parents the wrong information about his sex before he was born. He says that, in his view, explains his own sense of carrying more female hormones.
“Everyone thought, both my mom and my dad, that I was a girl, because the doctor told them a girl was being born. That’s how I explain why I have more female hormones,” Uros Stanic said on the Sikter show.
According to him, the decision on the transition wasn’t made overnight. He says that a few years ago he already had the paperwork for the first step, but that his father stopped him.
“I wanted to change my gender for years. I even got a referral to Dragisa Misovic hospital, but he, of course, tore up that referral,” Stanic said, referring to his father.
What does he say about his relationship with his father?
Stanic describes his relationship with his father as a years-long conflict that began when, at fourteen, he told his parents he was gay. On the show he said his father physically and psychologically abused him afterward and prevented him from starting his transition.
“He wouldn’t let me start my transition, he locked me in the bathroom, he starved me, he did all sorts of things to me. That’s when he instilled a kind of fear in me,” Stanic added, speaking to Sikter.
Despite everything he describes, Stanic repeats on the same show that the decision is final and that it awaits him as soon as he returns to everyday life outside the reality show.
“When I leave Elite 10, I’m definitely changing gender. I don’t act like a man, I don’t look like a man,” Stanic said.
Two suicide attempts at fourteen
Informer published an additional confession on August 29 at 11:18 a.m., in which Stanic talks about the period right after he came out. He says his family rejected him, that he lived on the street for a while, and that he ended up in the psychiatric ward of Laza Lazarevic hospital, where he was put on antidepressants.
In the same interview for Informer, Stanic says that at fourteen he attempted suicide twice, once with pills.
“I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone, but I swallowed a handful of pills, and if my mom hadn’t come in at that moment, I wouldn’t have survived. They called an ambulance and, thank God, they managed to save me,” Stanic said.
He also says he endured years of peer violence at school because of his sexual orientation, and that he changed elementary schools three times because of it, with frequent trips to the school counselor’s or principal’s office instead of the classroom.
Return to Elite on September 5
Elite 10 starts on September 5 on Pink television, and Stanic is returning for the new season as one of the contestants. The announcement of his gender transition comes just before his return to the reality show villa, where in previous seasons he had already been involved in conflicts, including a public breakup with Marko Janjusevic Janjus.
Neither Kurir nor Informer has so far reported an official response from Stanic’s father to these accusations. Stanic also hasn’t specified an exact date for when the transition would begin, only that he’s tying it to the end of his participation in this season of Elite.
