A transgender tragedy—and a media circus — On January 11, 2008, a child was born in El Paso named Dagny Ellis Benedict. At two months old, this person was given up by biological parents, and taken to Owasso, Oklahoma, outside Tulsa. Dagny was adopted by maternal grandparents, Walter or ‘Wally’ Benedict and his wife, Suzanne or ‘Sue’. A younger brother would be adopted by another family, as Dagny’s biological father then went to prison.