Loving a trans man isn't easy
TRANS SPOUSE / A femme's perspective on losing her butch
Andréa Hector / Vancouver / Thursday, October 06, 2011
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Loving_a_trans_man_isnt_easy-10868.aspxWhen I married the perfect butch, I didn't know that only four short months after our wedding I'd be married to a trans man.
My perfect "masculine woman" couldn't take the inner turmoil anymore and began to transition.
Transitioning may be more common these days, but my reaction was anything but. I was a catatonic, newlywed wife, crying in a La-Z-Boy for six weeks straight.
I cried tears of grief. I felt as if my love was leaving me, and in exchange there would be a potbellied, hairy-bodied, balding, middle-aged man.
