Yet another FIRST that I’m fairly certain has happened before. Indeed there was a book about one such couple back in the 1970s.
From Pink News UK: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/09/23/trans-couple-make-history-as-first-to-marry-after-both-having-gender-reassignment-surgery/
23 September 2013
A British couple from the city of Hull have made history, becoming the first married couple to have both transitioned, one from male to female and the other from female to male.
Helen and Felix Fenlon became Britain’s first married couple to have both gone through gender reassignment surgery, after being together for six years.
Speaking to ITV, Mr Fenlon, 46, said: “It was magical. It was everything I wanted. It far exceeded my expectations,” and Mrs Fenlon, 56, simply said: “It went fantastic. It was perfect”.
She said: “I had butterflies during the service and I thought my knees would buckle under me.”
Despite the happy ending for the married couple, they both spoke of the torment they faced whilst transitioning. Speaking of having been attacked, Mrs Fenlon said she “couldn’t go out without being verbally abused.”
“For years, that continued. In the end I just stood up to them,” she continued.
Mr Fenlon said he was “overcome”, on seeing his wife walk down the aisle, because she “looked so beautiful”.
On why the couple decided to go public, Mrs Fenlon said: “We want to show a successful outcome to other trans people, and show that there is a life beyond all of the discrimination”.
Continue reading at: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/09/23/trans-couple-make-history-as-first-to-marry-after-both-having-gender-reassignment-surgery/
