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After 19 years, Belgian finds out his wife was a man
Monday November 26, 2012 10:16:14 PM,
IANS
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London: A 64-year-old
Belgian man wants to have his marriage annulled after he
discovered that his Indonesian wife of 19 years had been born a
man and had later undergone a sex change.
The man, named Jan, married Monica in 1993 despite legal
difficulties raised by the Belgian immigration authorities, the
Telegraph reported.
But it was only recently that he discovered that his 48-year-old
wife had originally been a man.
"I feel I've been assaulted," he told the Het Nieuwsblad
newspaper.
"I brought her to Belgium. That was not easy. The Belgian courts
had serious doubts about the authenticity of her birth and her
identity papers, but eventually they accepted it anyway. I thought
she was an attractive woman, all woman. She had no male traits,"
the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
Jan said he and his wife had decided not to have children because
he had two by his previous marriage and she fooled him by
pretending to menstruate, using sanitary towels, "to conceal the
truth".
"Even during sex, I never noticed anything," he said.
For many years, the couple lived a normal family life and Monica
was like a "big sister" to his children until their marriage
started to come under strain when she got a new full-time job.
"Monica began to change very much," Jan said.
"My oldest son saw her sometimes at a nightclub. She began to wear
very flashy clothes, those ultra-short skirts or tiny tops, so her
abdomen was completely exposed," he said.
Jan found "amorous messages" from other men on her computer. He
confronted her and a row ensued that led to police being called.
"A friend told me that he had heard that Monica was actually a
sex-changed man. I could not believe it. My son heard similar
rumours," he said.
Jan is undergoing psychiatric treatment following the discovery.
He has also started legal proceedings to have the marriage
annulled.
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