A married couple who wed as man and wife plan to renew their vows as two women - with the bride insisting "it's the person I fell in love with - not the body."<br /><br />Brit Jae Harvey, 32, met her partner Rayna, 35, on Myspace in 2009 but after two years in a long-distance relationship the couple broke up. <br /><br />The couple rekindled their romance and got married - as man and woman - in Jae's hometown - Dallas, Texas, US, in March 2018.<br /><br />However, Rayna was struggling with her identity and confided in Jae on their honeymoon - who vowed to stick by her.<br /><br />During the week long break, Rayna went out in public as a woman for the first time and when the waiter greeted her as a woman, she "instantly knew who she was".<br /><br />Rayna started transitioning after coming out in a Facebook post.<br /><br />She has since had several surgeries totalling £70k and completed her transition in 2022.<br /><br />The pair hope to tie the knot as wife and wife.<br /><br />Rayna has to get a gender recognition certificate - a government authorisation of her gender - and she's hesitant about proving herself yet again to the world, she said.<br /><br />Rayna, a graphic designer, from Somerset, UK said: "I can't wait to walk down the aisle in a dress.<br /><br />"Our first wedding was still really cool, we got really drunk and ate lots of cake.<br /><br />"I didn't think about it on that day, but I've struggled with my identity since I was 11 years old.<br /><br />"To marry as a woman, I have to be psychoanalysed by two independent psychiatrists to prove I've been living as myself for two years.<br /><br />"After what I've been through, I feel very excluded and like I don't matter."<br /><br />Jae, a photographer, originally from Dallas, Texas, US, said: "We want to have a black and white wedding and wear black dresses to symbolise death and rebirth.<br /><br />"We got married in my mum's backyard the first time round and it was a very small wedding.<br /><br />"Unfortunately, Rayna's family couldn't be there because her grandfather had passed away the week before."<br /><br />The couple first met on social media in 2008 and started talking non-stop in 2010.<br /><br />Rayna flew over to visit Jae in America in August 2010, but they couldn't make their relationship go the distance and split at the end of 2011.<br /><br />After later discovering Rayna had split from her partner of five years, Jae reached out to her on Facebook in the summer of 2017.<br /><br />Jae added: "I came over to visit Rayna in October 2017 and it was like seven years hadn't passed.<br /><br />"Rayna proposed to me as I was about to board my flight at Bristol Airport sat in Costa.<br /><br />"She made a cheeky comment about me staying and I said you'd have to propose to me - so she did.<br /><br />"I went home on cloud nine."<br /><br />The pair got married in March 2018 in an intimate ceremony in Jae's mum's garden.<br /><br />The newlyweds then returned to the UK so Jae could start her visa application process.<br /><br />A couple of months after the wedding Rayna confided in Jae that she was having some thoughts and feelings she didn't understand.<br /><br />They discussed it during their honeymoon at Centre Parks, Longleat, Warminster, Wiltshire, in June 2018.
