美國一對普通的異性朋友,在相約一起動了變性手術之後來電,成為情侶。

今年18歲的希爾在15歲以前是個男孩,比他小兩歲的(愛蜜麗),原本是個美女,還參加過選美,兩人都有性別認同的困擾,從小被人嘲笑,因為同病相憐,成為好友。兩、三年前,他們在聊天時,發現彼此都有變性的念頭,兩人決定一起去動手術,變性之後,兩人愈看愈對眼,墜入愛河,他們不但找到真正的自己,也找到了真愛。

美國塔爾薩,18歲的Katie Hill生下來時是個男孩,當時名叫Luke,而她現在的16歲男朋友Arin Andrews小時候是個名叫Emerald的女孩。通過他們俄克拉荷馬家鄉的一個年輕變性者支持組織,這對愛侶結了識對方。當Katie和Arin出門約會時,他們看起來就像普通情侶一樣,絲毫不會引起注意。

To the casual observer, this young couple look just like any other teenagers in love.
But pretty Katie Hill and her boyfriend Arin Andrews share a unique bond - they were both born as the opposite sex.
Katie, 18, spent the first 15 years of her life as Luke, son of a Marine colonel, while Arin, 16, was born a girl called Emerald who excelled at ballet dancing and won beauty contests.


Both struggled with their sexuality all through their childhoods and were teased and bullied but their lives were changed when they both began hormone therapy and later met at a trans support group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and instantly fell in love.


Katie said: 'All I saw was a handsome guy. We're perfect for each other because we both had the same troubles growing up.


'We're both size five, so we even swap our old clothes our mum's bought us but we hated.


'We look so convincing as a boy and a girl, nobody even notices now. We secretly feel so good about it because it's the way we've always wanted to be seen.'


High-school student Arin undergoes testosterone shots to give him the more masculine shape he's craved his whole life.


Meanwhile high-school graduate Katie, 18, has finished her female hormone course - oestrogen shots - which helped her to develop natural breasts with no silicone implants.


Katie, who has legally been a female since she was 15, believes she was born with naturally high levels of oestrogen and was teased as a boy throughout school for having small AA-cup breasts.


An anonymous donor was so touched by her story they paid for her £25,000 (40,000) gender reassignment surgery just four days after her 18th birthday on May 16, 2012.




Katie added: 'Even from age three, I knew deep down I wanted to be a girl. All I wanted was to play with dolls. I hated my boy body and never felt right in it.