Kale and Dory

Kale and Dory have been together for four years, having first met as teenagers. “Dory was my first ‘boyfriend’, and I was their ‘girlfriend’,” Kale says. “It didn’t last long and we lost contact. Ten years later, I was watching YouTube and a beautiful trans feminine person was talking to their mum about what transition had been like for their family. I realised it was Dory. We started catching up. Months later, we met in real life and I sheepishly told them, ‘I think I’m falling for you.’ We started dating again – this time I’m the boyfriend and they’re the girlfriend.”

“Dory accepts me for who I am and gives me the space to work that out,” continues Kale. “We soon moved in together, but my health took a turn for the worse and I needed a wheelchair, which we couldn’t afford.” To help Kale, Dory set up a fundraiser and a run of T-shirts speaking out against trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs). “We now have our own little family,” says Kale. “There’s room for communication and growth, as we regularly check in with each other. We are genderqueer, non-binary and transgender. I couldn’t be happier!”