I am doing independent research on the topic "Transitioning for the Spouses/Significant Others/Partners of Transsexuals". Through research consisting of interviewing couples who were married or involved in an equivalent relationship and after they were committed to each other one of the partners came out as a transsexual and transitioned to their identified gender, and the couple managed to stay together as the same loving and romantic couple they were before the transsexual partner identified, accepted, and transitioned as a transsexual. If anyone knows of individuals in this situation I would greatly appreciate getting in contact with them. A big concern to most if not all of you is probably the couples security, discretion, and anonymity; rest assure that as an transsexual woman who is involved with the transsexual community and transsexual issues my first priority (even above my actual research) is the anonymity, discretion, and personal security of any participants I work with for my research. I know first hand what outing does to transsexuals and their loved ones and would never out anyone for any reason especially another transsexual. To assure them as well as you that this is a priority to me, I don't need or even want their first or last names, just the type of relationship (heterosexual, male homosexual, or female homosexual) which one is cisgender (female or male) and which is transsexual (MTF or FTM). Basically, I would like to just conduct an interview either in person, over the phone or video messaging, or email communication if necessary regarding the process that both the cisgender and transsexual partners in the relationship went through and hear their story, from their point of view without censoring them, of how and what they did to survive one of them identifying as transsexual and transitioning to their identified gender. I would like to conduct a total of ten fully detailed but completely confidential and anonymous interviews to have sufficient data for my analysis and thesis paper. Also I plan on putting my thesis out there so other couples in the future have some sort of guidance; presently there is little or close to nothing in print (books) for couples to access as a guidance source and I would like to change that by documenting and getting my thesis published so I can hopefully help them stay as they were before transitioning or become even stronger after transitioning.
