"It's hard to be intimate yet because we are not yet comfortable with our bodies"

The couple are under no illusion that even highly educated people are not always accepting of them. Feminists including Germaine Greer have been quick to criticise transgender people for aiming to be masculine men and feminine women, thereby failing to challenge the social construction of gender. “The insistence that man-made women be accepted as women is the institutional expression of the mistaken conviction that women are defective males,” she wrote in The Whole Woman.

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But Jamie and Louis stand firm. “There’s a lot of confusion about us and what we’re about, but to put it simply, I’m a girl and Louis is a boy,” Jamie says. Which is exactly what I thought when we first met.

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