My Groom Came Out As Trans On Our Honeymoon | LOVE DON'T JUDGE

  • 2 years ago
A MARRIED COUPLE are tying the knot again as wife and wife - after the groom came out as transgender during their honeymoon. Rayna, 33, and Jae, 30, first met on MySpace back in 2010, when they lived in the UK and USA respectively. At the time, Rayna, who was born male, was still living as a man and using her birth name, Jake. After around seven months of speaking daily, Rayna flew to the States to meet Jae. Their spark just as evident in real life as it had been online, they soon became a proper couple. In time, the relationship fizzled out, but they reconnected seven years later, and at the end of 2017, Rayna proposed. Jae said: "I'd flown over to the UK for a visit. I arrived Rayna's girlfriend, and left as her fiance." The couple went on to get married in an intimate ceremony in 2018. But unbeknownst to her new wife, Rayna was secretly battling with feeling as if she had been born in the wrong body. She said: "From my early years, I'd known something was wrong. I felt like something was missing." As Rayna grew older, she met people in the LGBTQ community - which led to the realisation that she was transgender. She added: "That was a big moment - discovering there was a word for what I was feeling, and that there were other people like me out there," But it was not until two months after their wedding that Rayna revealed her true identity to her wife, whilst the pair were on their honeymoon at Centre Parcs. After telling a select few loved ones the news too, she came out to everyone else in her life via a Facebook post. Since then, Rayna has spent £45,000 on her transition. She and Jae have faced judgment for their relationship, particularly since going public about their story online. But they have vowed to continue trying to educate others, and cannot wait to walk down the aisle together for a second time.

Follow Rayne: https://www.instagram.com/officiallyrayna/
Follow Jae: https://www.instagram.com/heyitsjaegrey/

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