SIN · SAI: Couple Remarries After Husband’s Sex Change →
In 2002, Anne and Barry Watson tied the knot as husband and wife. Six years into the marriage, however, Barry confessed to Anne that he wanted to have a sex change. Now, the couple has decided to renew their vows–only this time, as wife and wife!
Barry, who is now known as Jayne, never felt comfortable as a man. As a child, he would often put on his mother’s clothes when he was alone at home. “Putting my own clothes back on felt like going back to prison,” Jayne explains. The feeling only got worse as Barry got older, often driving him to travel to cities where nobody knew him so he could dress as a woman in public. Despite Barry’s identity crisis, however, he fell in love with Anne and the two married in 2002.
Barry, who couldn’t help the way he felt, continued to dress as a woman when Anne wasn’t around. Finally, Anne noticed something was wrong, and Barry came clean about wanting a sex change. Anne was furious at first, but eventually came to realize that the truth had not changed her feelings about her husband. After Barry started hormone therapy and made the transition into her new life as Jayne, the couple decided to renew their wedding vows. “I still love the same person, whether they’re called Barry or Jayne,” Anne says.
“People might think I’m weird or a freak,” admits Jayne, who wore a dress and held a bouquet at the ceremony. “But all that matters to me is that my wife loves me.”
Well the title could be better, but
just ignore the jealous snarl on my face
never date straight cis men like I did, children.
