Woman Realises She’s Gay After Partner Comes Out As Trans
September 9, 2020A woman in Arizona revealed she is lesbian just moments after her partner came out as trans.
Jenni Barrett, 37, and Sarah Barrett, 38, from Phoenix, Arizona have been married for 15 years and have two children together. At the time of their marriage Jenni’s partner identified as a man.
Speaking to 'Unilad', Jenni explained how their big moment of disclosure unfolded: “Sarah rolled over one evening in bed in 2016 and told me, ‘I really need to talk to you – I think I’m trans.’ I’d come to realise why I’d always been so drawn to her, it was because of who she was on the inside – a woman – and not her shell.”
“I turned around and said, ‘That’s OK – I think I’m gay’. We’ve had conversations since about this time in our lives and it turns out we were both silently Googling. I was looking up, ‘Is my partner transgender?’ and Sarah was Googling, ‘Am I transgender?’”
The couple told their sons about Sarah’s transition, and they believe their experiences helped Morgan become his “true authentic self” as he came out as gay two years later.
Morgan and Toby, who are Jewish, now call Sarah ‘Eema’, which is the Hebrew word for ‘mother’.
Sarah started hormone therapy in July 2017, and now takes a combination of testosterone blockers and oestrogen every day. She is due to have gender confirmation surgery next year, and she feels the operation will be the ‘final chapter’ in her journey.
Describing themselves as an ‘LGBT family’, Jenni and Sarah post regularly about their story on social media to help prove that ‘love conquers all’ and to show other couples that relationships can ‘survive’ a transition.
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