Transgender Identity Research Paper

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While a spouse is coming to terms with their partner being transgender, many spouses will feel deeply betrayed. This most often occurs when the transgender person did not disclose early in the relationship (Israel, 2004). Deception causes pain and having your partner’s core truth hidden from you can be view as betrayal. “Most wonder what was real, imagined, or a charade in their marriages and no longer trust their partners’ word or their own judgement” (Buxton, 2006, p.324). Many spouses reported feeling “stupid” and “gullible” that they were not able to pick up the signals earlier. It is difficult for spouses to understand and process that their partner, whom they believed to know well, has this unexpected component of their identity (PFLAG,