"Couple Renews Vows After Husband Has Sex Change"

Couple Renews Vows After Husband Has Sex Change

The Christian Post > World|Mon, Jan. 09 2012 05:31 PM EDT

By Jeff Schapiro | Christian Post Reporter

Barry and Anne Watson were united nine years ago as husband and wife, but a lot has changed since then. After Barry began pursuing a sex change, the U.K. couple renewed their wedding vows last year and reaffirmed their commitment to one another, this time as wife and wife.

Barry, who now goes by the name of Jayne, told the Sunday Mirror that during a rough patch in their marriage, Anne actually thought he was cheating on her with another woman, when in fact he wanted to be a woman himself. Though Anne was “furious” to learn that Barry wanted to undergo a sex change at first, Jayne explained, she later conceded.

 "Anne came to accept me for who I wanted to be and love me as Jayne. Renewing our vows seemed the perfect way to tell the world how happy we are with our new lives," said Jayne.

 As a child, Barry wore his mother's skirts and dresses while she was away. Later in life he would drive to a place where no one knew him just so he could wear women's clothes in public without being noticed.

Barry began dating women so that he would fit in, and in 1995 he met Anne. He was "totally attracted to Anne" when they first met, and after six months they moved into a house together in Halifax, West Yorkshire. They were married in 2002, but that didn't put an end to his identity issues.

"When Anne left the house I’d dress in a skirt and pearls, and on Internet chat forums I’d pose as a girl," said Jayne.

In 2008, he finally confessed to Anne that he wanted a sex change.

"I couldn’t accept it to begin with," Anne told the Sunday Mirror. "The first time I saw Jayne wearing a dress I started hacking at it with scissors. But slowly I realized that even though my husband wanted to become female, my feelings had not changed."

In order to help the transformation, Jayne took female hormones – which helped to reduce body hair and soften her skin. In preparation for the renewal of their vows, Jayne and Anne went dress shopping together, and both of them had a bouquet at the ceremony.

Anne says she "grieved" over the loss of Barry, but is happy to "sit and giggle and talk about hair, clothes and make-up" with Jayne.

"I still love the same person whether they’re called Barry or Jayne... even though she does drive me mad when she steals my clothes without asking me!" said Anne.

Photos of Jayne's transformation can be viewed on the Sunday Mirror's website.

Denise Shick, the founder of Help4Families, says that it is not unusual for a transgender person to still have feelings for his wife, although it is uncommon for the wife of a transgender person to stick around. Many women, whose husbands struggle with gender identity and want to pursue a sex change, fear they might be in a lesbian relationship, Shick told The Christian Post on Monday.

"To them, of course, when they said their wedding vows it was to the man that they love," she explained. "So it really takes a twisted turn when indeed husbands ask the wives to stay with them while they're transitioning and afterward. But that is a big struggle that wives have...is how they look at that relationship. And they just can't emotionally or spiritually go there."

Help4Families, an organization based in Waynesville, N.C., is dedicated to helping individuals struggling with Gender Identity Disorders, and their families, by introducing them to a support network that includes others who have struggled with the same issues.

Shick's father was a cross dresser, the organization's website states, and prior to his death, she found out he also had been in a homosexual relationship. Initially she viewed her father's struggle as "disgusting," "embarrassing" and "shameful," she says, but she now realizes those who struggle with gender identity issues need love just like everyone else.

 "The most difficult thing for us to do sometimes when it’s an issue that we're uncomfortable with...is to love them. Love them right where they are," she said.

In order for Christians to help individuals struggling with a Gender Identity Disorder, Shick says, they must lend an ear to their problems and become a trustworthy friend.

"They're going to need somebody to confide in and they're going to want that because they have that need just like any of us do. Love them where they're at, and walk along side of them in truth and grace. That doesn't mean that we have to jeopardize our faith or what we believe is right or wrong," she said.

She later added, "Again it's just so much loving them where they're at, and bringing them into relationship, and relationship with Christ. Because ultimately Christ is the one that's going to have to mend their hearts, and to take them through...the difficult journey."

"Homosexual Lobby Group Funded Mostly by Government"

Jan 05, 2012

http://www.c-fam.org/fridayfax/volume-14/homosexual-lobby-group-funded-mostly-by-governments.html

By Austin Ruse

WASHINGTON, DC, January 6 (C-FAM) European human rights lawyer J.C. von Krempach has taken a close look at the funding stream of the International Gay and Lesbian Association – Europe (ILGA) and concluded that most of their money comes from governments. Writing in the foreign policy blog Turtle Bay and Beyond, von Krempach found a vast majority of ILGA’s funds come from just two governmental entities, the European Commission and the Dutch government.

ILGA is an advocacy group promoting homosexual rights. They were notoriously denied UN accreditation for years because of their connection to groups that promote pedophilia. The NGO Committee of the UN Economic and Social Council consistently rejected ILGA until the Economic and Social Council, led by European countries, overruled their decision.

Among the requirements for UN NGO accreditation is “the major portion of the organization's funds should be derived from contributions from national affiliates, individual members, or other non-governmental components."

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accredited to the United Nations must show actual people or non-profits, such as foundations, fund them. The UN holds that if their money comes mostly from governments that would make them governmental entities.

The UN included “civil society” to represent people independent from governmental intrusion, not to be an arm of government or a deceptive front for political officials. “Civil society” is comprised of voluntary social relationships and civic organizations and institutions, distinct from the state and market.

Von Krempach discovered that in the year just ended, the European Commission, an intergovernmental entity, provided fully 68% of ILGA’s budget. The Dutch government provided an additional €50,000 bringing ILGA’s governmental funding up to 71%. The rest of ILGA’s funding comes from left-wing donors George Soros, Sigrid Rausing, and one anonymous donor.

Von Krempach also looked at the organization’s budget forecast for 2012 and found a total income of €1,950,000 of which €1 million come from the European Commission and €334,000 come from the Dutch government. Von Krempach writes, “This raises questions with regard to ILGA-Europe’s accreditation to the UN Economic and Social Council.”

Von Krempach also points out the anomaly of the European Commission being the largest sole funding source for a group set up to lobby the European Commission and the European Parliament. He says this is basically the European Institutions lobbying itself.

In light of this new information, it is expected the UN NGO Committee will take up ILGA’s accreditation once more. There is a great deal of bad blood at the UN on the question of the homosexual agenda. European nations are forcing extremist homosexual groups upon the UN NGO Committee. Other governments have taken up the cause of making homosexual activity a human right enforced by international law.

A document called the Yogyakarta Principles, written in part by UN bureaucrats, claims that “sexual orientation and gender identity” are already part of international law. A solid bloc of 80+ nations consistently stops this phantom re-interpretation of UN treaties from actually happening.

In recent weeks the US government announced that advancing the homosexual agenda would be one of its top foreign policy priorities, directing all US government entities that do business overseas to make this agenda a priority.

"Mums fight in custody dispute"

Mums fight in custody dispute

The Weekend Australian 2011 12 31 – 2012 01 01 Page 10

ORLANDO, FLORIDA: They fell in love, moved in together and had a baby girl.  Now they are fighting over who should raise the child.  But unlike most couples, they are two women.  One donated the egg. The other had it implanted into her womb and carried the child to term.

So which one is the mother?

The woman who bore the child - and who had run away to Queensland from Florida with the child before returning home - says she is.

A local judge, writing that it broke his heart to say so, ruled that she's right.  Under Florida law, a woman who gives birth is the mother.  Last week, however, a state appeals court overturned his decision, saying the other mother has parental rights, too.

The appeals court ruled that the US and Florida constitutions trump Florida law and give par- enting rights to both women.  State law, the court said, has not kept up with the times.

Although a growing number of families have two parents who are the same sex, few involve children whose chromosomes come from one woman but who were carried to term by another.

A child raised in this environment shouldn't be forced to give up a parent

NANCY POLlKOFF U.S. LAW PROFESSOR

It is an important decision with a wider implication, said Nancy Polikoff, a law professor at American University Washington College of Law and an expert on gay-and-Iesbian family law.

"Any ruling that supports the right of a same-sex couple ... is important for its willingness to recognise that these families exist and a child raised in this environment shouldn't be forced to give up a parent," she said.

In this case, the same-sex couple - both policewomen had been in a committed relationship for 11 years, according to court records.  One is infertile, so she bore the egg grown by the other - from an anonymous sperm donor who had waived his parental rights.

The couple gave the baby a hyphenated version of their last names, but the birth certificate bore only the name of the woman who carried her to term.

The women split up when the little girl was two years old.  A year and a half later, the birth mother disappeared with the child, leaving the country without telling her former partner where they had gone.  Eventually, the egg donor tracked them down in Queensland.  They have since returned to Florida.

Church opposes legalising of Same-Sex Unions in Queensland

DATE:                                      2 December 2011

TO:                                           The Premier, the Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal/National Party, the Independent Members of the Legislative Assembly, and the Media

FROM:                                     Rev Ron Clark, Clerk of Assembly

SUBJECT:                                Decision of recent Unforeseen Assembly

At an Unforeseen Meeting of the State Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland on 2 November, it was resolved that the Presbyterian Church of Queensland is opposed to the establishment of a Same-Sex Register or the legalising of Same-Sex Unions in Queensland or the amending of the Commonwealth Marriage Act to include Same-Sex “Marriage”, because homosexual practice, as well as adultery, sexual relations before marriage, incest, prostitution, murder, theft, and covetousness are against the commandments of God and lead to His eternal judgement.

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