Anatomy Of A Controversy: Transgender Marriage In West Texas

Their love story started with fuschia fingernail polish and black leather.

Therese Bur got her first glimpse of Sabrina Hill ? a tall, dark-haired woman decked out in leather gear and flashing those nails ? at about 2 a.m. at an Arizona gas station. She was intrigued. One date later, their future was sealed.

That was 17 years ago. ?Sabrina was the first person who just listened to who I was and accepted me for who I was,? Bur says. ?As strange as we are, that?s important.?

The two women are hardly the typical Texas married couple, yet their union has been blessed by the courts. That’s because Hill is a transgender female: She was born with both male and female genitalia, and her father ordered surgery to make her a male.

Read the full Texas Tribune story here.