Ashley: Hi, I’m Ashley.
Miles: My name is Miles.
Ashley: We’ve been together for seven years.
Miles: Seven and a half years.
Ada: I’m Ada.
Teresa: I’m Teresa.
Ada: We’ve been together about two and a half years.
Solomon: I’m Solomon.
Evelyn: I’m Evelyn.
Solomon: This is baby, Harmony, and we’ve been together for a few months, but we’ve known each other for a bit.
Ada: We met at a play.
Miles: One of my best friends came to one of my birthday parties and brought her along.
Evelyn: We met through “Into the Change,” which is a fundraiser for trans people.
Miles: We were together almost three years before I started transition, or it started coming up more and more for me.
Ada: It wasn’t until, what? About six months, maybe nine months, into our relationship that I really decided that I needed to transition.
Miles: After it had been coming up again and again, she kind of stopped me and said, “Okay, so what’s next?”
Ada: It was a little tricky at first.
Ashley: Having to readjust myself to getting used to being with a male partner was a bit different.
Ada: I think people don’t realize a lot of the time just how fluid sexuality is, and sexual orientation – that just because you’re transitioning to a gender that your partner is not normally attracted to, it doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily want to leave you.
Ashley: I just love him. That’s all I know.
Evelyn: I don’t think it matters if you’re transgender, if you’re straight, or you’re gay, or you’re anything in between. As long as you find somebody that you love, and you’re happy being who you are, it shouldn’t matter.
Miles: I don’t want to say too much like, “I’m normal! I’m normal! I’m just like you, so don’t be scared of me!” I think there’s a lot of value in being different.
Ada: Our relationship gives me strength.
Evelyn: He taught me how to communicate.
Ashley: I really don’t think I would have been able to achieve half the things I have in my life without having him in it.
Teresa: This relationship has kind of taught me what love really is.
Evelyn: It’s awesome, the feeling. Who doesn’t want to be loved?
Miles: She loves me really well.
Solomon: Once you find somebody that is accepting of who you are, and that loves you the same way that you love them, and that you guys are able to work in that way, hold on tight to that. That’s a rarity.
Teresa: There’s nobody else I’d rather take on this adventure with me.
