{"id":222999,"date":"2023-10-04T15:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=222999"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:52:50","slug":"i-transitioned-to-become-a-woman-aged-69-and-now-ive-found-a-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/lifestyle\/i-transitioned-to-become-a-woman-aged-69-and-now-ive-found-a-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"I transitioned to become a woman aged 69 and now I've found a husband"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former hairdresser who transitioned to become female at 69 years old and\u00a0feared she would ‘die never having known true love’ has\u00a0married a man who brings ‘joy to her heart’.<\/p>\n
Phillis Price, 70, who worked as a successful hairdresser for 45 years and now lives in Washington, calls the time before her transition ‘the dark years’.<\/p>\n
She lived in ‘despair’ for more than 60 years, felt hollow inside, ‘spent her alone time crying’, and isolated herself from relationships.<\/p>\n
But Phillis is now living the life she always dreamed after transitioning in 2022 and has met and married her husband Steven, 48, a cook.<\/p>\n
She did not tell anyone about her struggles and kept her secrets for years \u2013 even during her first marriage, which ended in divorce when Phillis was 50.<\/p>\n
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Phillis Price, 70, (right) who worked as a successful hairdresser for 45 years and now lives in Washington,\u00a0feared she would ‘die never having known true love’ has married a man who brings ‘joy to her heart’ (left)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Phillis did her utmost to be hyper-masculine and hide her feminine urges, including getting tattoos, growing a full, thick beard, and buying clothing and furniture with ‘no feminine edge to it whatsoever’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But her feelings never went away and it made her ‘miserably unhappy’.<\/p>\n
There was a turning point in 2022, however, as Phillis remembered a promise that she had made to herself when she was 20 years old \u2013 that she would ‘be a woman as a senior’.<\/p>\n
‘When I first started the transition, what I wanted more than anything in the world was to find love and commit myself to one man,’ Phillis said.<\/p>\n
‘It’s been a whirlwind, it hasn’t even been a year [since I transitioned], and I’m shocked. How could I have developed all this in such a short time? Everything just fell into place.<\/p>\n
‘My biggest fear in life was to die never having known true love. Well, now I have known true love.’<\/p>\n
Phillis said she knew she ‘should have been a girl’ when she was just five years old \u2013 but it took her more than 60 years to start living the life she had always wanted.<\/p>\n
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She did not tell anyone about her struggles and harboured her secrets for years \u2013 even during her first marriage, which ended in divorce when Phillis was 50<\/p>\n
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She lived in ‘despair’ for more than 60 years, felt hollow inside, ‘spent her alone time crying’, and isolated herself from relationships (pictured\u00a0before her transition, at 66 years old)<\/p>\n
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Phillis is now living the life she always dreamed after transitioning in 2022 and has met and married her husband Steven, 48, a cook (right)<\/p>\n
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Phillis hinted to Steven (pictured) that she wanted him to marry her, and just weeks after first connecting online, Steven officially proposed with a canary diamond ring in April<\/p>\n
After starting hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in January 2022, Phillis transformed from ‘this skinny, shapeless man’ to a ‘curvy’ woman and came out to the world in November 2022.<\/p>\n
Having since undergone surgical castration, she said she is now just taking oestrogen, she feels ‘healthy’, and she is in ‘great shape’.<\/p>\n
She does not even recognise or remember the person \u2013 Phillip \u2013 who once used to look back at her in the mirror.<\/p>\n
‘When I first laid eyes on Phillis in the mirror, she was out and never going back and the other person died that day,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘At this point in time, it feels like I’ve always lived my life just as I am. Steven knows no-one but Phillis.<\/p>\n
‘I am who I am, and that’s who he loves, and he’s never known anybody else.’<\/p>\n
Phillis said she has always wanted to find true love, but at first, she did not believe this would ever be possible.<\/p>\n
After facing frauds and scammers, Phillis nearly ‘gave up on romance’ \u2013 until a message from Steven popped up on her screen in March this year.<\/p>\n
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After starting hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in January 2022, Phillis transformed from ‘this skinny, shapeless man’ to a ‘curvy’ woman and came out to the world in November 2022<\/p>\n
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Having since undergone surgical castration, she said she is now just taking oestrogen, she feels ‘healthy’, and she is in ‘great shape’<\/p>\n
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There was a turning point in 2022, however, as Phillis remembered a promise that she had made to herself when she was 20 years old \u2013 that she would ‘be a woman as a senior’\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I probably spent about three months chatting with different gentlemen and it was a nightmare \u2013 frauds, scammers, people asking for money, or just making stuff up, never wanting to talk to you \u2013 so eventually, I decided that that was it, I wasn’t going to do that anymore,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘I thought I would maybe try a dating site or something, but then Steven messaged me in March and I thought, ‘Well, I’m just going to try this one last time’.’<\/p>\n
Phillis was intrigued and ‘took a chance’ on Steven, who lived locally to her at the time in Seattle, and she decided to respond to his Facebook message.<\/p>\n
Steven wrote: ‘Hi, I’m Steven, I’m local. If you like hit me back’ \u2013 and even though he barely knew Phillis at the time, he said he ‘knew she was the one from the get-go’.<\/p>\n
They spent one week talking online, via messages and video chats, before nervously meeting in person for lunch.<\/p>\n
Phillis said she questioned whether ‘the magic would be there in person’, but they connected instantly and have been together ever since.<\/p>\n
‘Before that, I was giving up on romance because I thought, ‘Oh well, maybe I’ll just figure out how to live by myself’. I didn’t think I’d ever find romance,’ Phillis said.<\/p>\n
‘I wanted love and commitment, I didn’t want casual or kinky stuff, I wanted old-fashioned love and commitment \u2013 and that’s what he brought. He very much touched my heart.’<\/p>\n
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She said when she first laid eyes on Phillis in the mirror, she was out and never going back (pictured six months into HRT)<\/p>\n
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Phillis Rolli, before her transition, pictured outside her family home with her parents<\/p>\n
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Phillis pictured before her transition when she was 18 years old<\/p>\n
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Phillis pictured before her transition with her daughter who she shares with her ex-wife<\/p>\n
Phillis hinted to Steven that she wanted him to marry her, and just weeks after first connecting online, Steven officially proposed with a canary diamond ring in April.<\/p>\n
‘I just felt it in my heart, immediately,’ Steven said.<\/p>\n
The couple got married on May 9, with Steven’s parents as witnesses, and they took a road trip across the country for two weeks for their honeymoon, which was ‘wonderful’.<\/p>\n
‘I looked and looked for the right wedding dress and I had this one dress that’s black with some see-through material and flowers embroidered on the top, and he loved that, so that’s what I ended up wearing for my wedding, and I wore little kitten heels,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘I can’t be very tall because Steven’s already an inch shorter than me, so in our wedding pictures, I look like the Amazon because both his parents are short and he’s short.<\/p>\n
‘I feel like we can’t really carry off the Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise look, but we got married in the Judge’s chambers, in a courtroom, and it was an emotional ceremony.’<\/p>\n
The newlyweds then moved into their new apartment in Washington in July, and they are now looking forward to enjoying ‘more fun times’ together and settling into married life.<\/p>\n
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Phillis said she doesn’t even recognise or remember the person \u2013 Phillip \u2013 who once used to look back at her in the mirror<\/p>\n
While the pair have only known each other for a matter of months, Phillis said she did not want to ‘hold off’ \u2013 and most importantly, Steven brings ‘joy’ to her heart.<\/p>\n
‘When I look at it this way, I’m 70. I can hold off and wait and have less time to enjoy it, or I can go for the gusto now and enjoy it as long as it lasts,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘Steven makes me laugh and he has brought joy to my heart. He loves me more than I love myself.’<\/p>\n
Phillis said her biggest fear in life was to ‘die never having known true love’ and she never thought she would be a married woman.<\/p>\n
However, after conquering this, she now wants to enjoy ‘wherever life will take’ and hopes to one day start painting again.<\/p>\n
She would advise anyone who is looking to find love to leave the baggage from past relationships behind, and while she still faces challenges as a result of her transition, she no longer worries about her future and said the ‘most amazing thing is to commit your life to another person’.<\/p>\n
‘I’m living the life that I dreamed of all my life,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘I can’t believe it and it is shocking that it all came together so quickly, but I just believe that this is the way it was supposed to be.<\/p>\n
‘I think when you are truly happy in your heart, then you get led into the right choices and the right places.’<\/p>\n