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A 64-year-old man was left rather confused and angry after discovering his wife of the last 19 years originally left the factory as a man. She didn’t tell him about her earlier, pre-sex-change life as a bloke.
The Belgian chap met his Indonesian wife while she was employed as an au pair to look after his sister’s kids. He later employed her to look after his children from a previous relationship, before The Magic Happened and they ended up as an item.
Belgian authorities were suspicious of her paperwork when it came to getting citizenship in the country, but let her in anyway, where the pair settled down, got married and apparently enjoyed a normal sex life despite the lady’s colourful previous physical transition.
19 years later, a friend told him he’d heard his wife used to be a man and things turned violent, the police got involved and we wouldn’t be at all surprised if some dinner plates were thrown at walls. The man, the actual man who was born as a man, is now applying for his marriage to be annulled. [The Register]
Image credit: Drag queen from Shutterstock
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Oh.
My.
God.
The sex must have been amazing if for 16 years he didn’t know how good She (He) was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3BY72RF8vc
Hardly the most respectful choice of image to accompany this article. But at least you didn’t refer to her using male pronouns.
I don’t wanna be a pain, but drag queens and trans people are quite different and distinct. Just saying your choice of image for the article is pretty naff humour at best.
Is that ‘her’ in the photo?
“19 years later, a friend told him he’d heard his wife used to be a man and things turned violent”
where and how did this friend hear it? if the guy himself didnt know how did this friend hear about his/her past in a far off foreign land?
I’m thinking something similar to what happened in “The Girl Next Door” where the man’s friend has seen his wife in a porno
Come on, who hasn’t made this mistake? guys? I say love the person they are not the past they are not.
It’s reporting like this that keeps transphobia normalized. Either you love other person they are now or you don’t. I used to be a Goth but I wouldn’t expect someone I meet now to love that me.
I recall coming across an article in a feminist magazine from way back while doing some research, I think it was called Spare Rib or something like that. And I came across a great article regarding sexuality being a modern myth, I was completely sold on the idea. Our records suggest at a far more fluid sexual history from the past. People are attracted to people, some people like Goths, some people like redheads, some people like tall redheads, some like tall redheads with long legs, others may like tall redheads with long legs and a penis. I don’t see why gender should be the focus of attraction. And that is why most people will come across someone that ticks all the right boxes but happens to be the wrong sex, sometimes leading to homosexual panic. I personally feel that we have as many sexualities as we have people on the planet. You love the one your with.
I think she should have told him before. Arn’t you ment to be honest with your partners.
That’s so odd. I often wonder how I’d react if I was in a relationship and I found this out. I mean they’re still the same person, but there’s something weird about the idea they used to be the same gender as you I can’t put my finger on. I wonder if I’d ever be able to mentally get round it. Hm.
Would a lapdance persuade you?
IMHO I’d stick with them, that is some serious ammunition to be throwing away. That’s a guilt trip to ride to hell and back – we are talking years of getting away with some major stuff. I guess we’ll have trust issues, but weighting it all up I then decided to forgive Vita.
mmmm… the thought of enjoying 20 years of – presumably nice – bj’s from a man must be giving him sleepless nights
wish i was there to see his pain
Have I stumbled onto the Daily Fail? Why is this on Gizmodo anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9dVZGujoAY