Helen Morfitt, 56, started life as Leslie, and is due to marry Felix Laws, 46, formerly Katy, in September. The couple has already been married four times, and Helen has eight children and Felix two from their previous relationships.
They will officially change their gender on their birth certificates, allowing them to get married, with a date set for 13 September, the date both had their sex change operations, albeit seven years apart."We've been through a lot over the years and had tough times transitioning from one sex to another, but we've now found each other and that's all that matters, Helen said.
"I've been married three times before but this time I know it's for real because I know I'm the right sex this time."
Felix added, "We're just like any other couple - including in the bedroom. Neither of us has any complaints on that score."
The couple met in 2008, when Felix visited a doctor about the possibility of having a sex change operation. The doctor referred him to a transgender support group run by Helen. click to continue
He got married as Katy at 21 and soon had two children. "After I exchanged vows with my husband and went up to our room I knew I'd made the biggest mistake of my life." Just because I was transgender didn't mean I didn't want what everyone else had - a loving family.
"When I held my children in my arms for the first time I felt like any other mother would about their baby."
After 13 years, Felix left the marriage and the children.
"I didn't have a choice. The urge to become a man was growing stronger.
"My husband was given custody of the children and it broke my heart but I couldn't keep playing happy families," he said.
Helen married three times as Leslie.
She said: "My wives had wanted children and I did too. In some ways I was trying to prove my masculinity, trying to deny who I really was - a woman in a man's body.
"I loved my wives, in fact I'm still friends
with two of them. But I couldn't love them in the right way. I was trying to repress my real feelings and coped by cross dressing in secret."
Both said that one of the most difficult parts of the process was telling their families of their decision to change sex.
3 comments:
One sentence only-- the world is coming to an end!
Oloshis!!!! What's this world turning into? My ears have really heard things in dis world that I came to. Nonsense upon nonsense. You didn't feel complete as a man u decided to change into a woman huh? Bear it in mind that God isn't mocked. Never. He wasn't asleep wen he made u a man. Kai. These western peepz really disgust me atimes.
Oloshis!!!! What's this world turning into? My ears have really heard things in dis world that I came to. Nonsense upon nonsense. You didn't feel complete as a man u decided to change into a woman huh? Bear it in mind that God isn't mocked. Never. He wasn't asleep wen he made u a man. Kai. These western peepz really disgust me atimes.
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