Miss Fanny Ler, who had surgery to become a woman made headlines when she announced her engagement last week. But others say it is much harder to find love, family acceptance or even a job when you are between genders. Benson Ang reports.
Though Lyn intends to go for her sex reassignment surgery next year, she also wants to marry her girlfriend of eight years.
They've been together for eight years and met during secondary school, says the 23-year-old, who requests that we call her a she even if she has not legally changed her sex yet.
The couple intend to get a flat after registering their marriage.
Says Lyn (not her real name), a diploma holder who's looking for a job: "I think we will have a good life together. We had instant chemistry.
"Of course, like any other couple, we've had fights, but we've managed to pull through all these years."
Linda (not her real name), 20, who works as an administrative assistant, says: "Marriage is a reward for being together all these years."
They confess they haven't quite thought through what legal implications the sex reassignment will have on their marriage.
Through the years, Linda's been protective of Lyn.
"She has no qualms marching up to people making fun of me, and she tells them to mind their own business. I often try to stop her, so there's no trouble," says the well-spoken Lyn, who sports a shaggy fringe.
Her thin frame means she can pass off as an androgynous tomboy.
Linda says: "Since I am straight, I can stand up to these people. Lyn's self-confidence is shaky, and I won't let them hurt her."
Lyn says she has struggled to find acceptance from her parents.
The only child lives with them and Linda in an executive mansionette flat in Jurong.
Lyn was born male and likes females. But she also wants to be female.
She says: "It's true that my life would be easier if I stayed a man.
"But I won't be true to myself.
"I feel female inside."
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So lucky but hard to win over potential in-laws
By Foo Jieying
Singapore - Despite her engagement falling through earlier this month, Miss Sarah Schmitzkova, 25, considers herself lucky.
Lucky because she had her family's support when she decided to have gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2009.
Miss Schmitzkova was born Muhammad Iz'aan Mohd Sazali, but she took her Russian stepfather's surname when she became a woman.
Now the director of a Muslim undertaker company, the pretty and statuesque lady confesses that she started crossdressing at the age of 15.
Although she did not contemplate gender reassignment then, she did feel "increasingly abnormal" day by day.
As chance would have it, her grandfather caught her during one of her cross-dressing sessions.
"He told me I cannot be in-between, because I was neither here nor there. He said I should go all the way if I wanted to be a woman.
"He was okay with it as long as I was a good person," she recalls.
Her family supported her as they had seen feminine attributes in her since she was a child.
Miss Schmitzkova says her mother, whom she is closest to, has been with her every step of the way.
"She paid for my breast augmentation and is a strong woman I look up to. She is definitely also my best friend whom I tell everything to," she said.
Her ex-boyfriend and almost-fiance was also accepting, initially. (She makes it a point to tell all about her sex change operation on the first date.)
But after he proposed, Miss Schmitzkova began to notice the change in his attitude towards her, which she suspects was due to pressure from his family and friends.
"Going ahead with the engagement was just going to be a lie," she says.
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His wife accepts him as a woman
By Benson Ang
Singapore - Bridget (not her real name), 36, is opting to remain physically male, so she can remain married to someone she considers the love of her life.
The landscaper, 36, says: "It's a compromise. If it weren't for my family, I probably would have gone for a sex change operation.
"For now, I'm content to be as true to myself without surgery."
Though still a married man with kids, Bridget requests that we call her "she" and use a female name.
The landscaper says: "It's a compromise. If it weren't for my family, I probably would have gone for a sex change operation.
"For now, I'm content to be as true to myself without surgery."
When The New Paper on Sunday met her and her wife, Julia (not her real name), in person at a mall last Friday, Bridget was dressed in a woman's top, scarf, slacks, shoes and carrying a small black handbag.
Julia, an engineer, was dressed more sedately in a denim skirt and a black short-sleeved top.
Bridget reveals that she's been cross-dressing since the age of 10.
As a child, she wore her mother's chiffon skirts when nobody was looking, and wore knee-high stockings under her uniform.
Over the years, she has worn dresses, frilly skirts, leggings, dresses, heels and nail polish.
She has multiple earrings on each ear. She has around 250 scarves at home - all women's. She coquettishly says: "They are my one indulgence. I've almost lost count of how many I have.
"I'm a woman trapped in a married man's body.
"My brain is female. I have a feminine sense of design and taste."
But all this while, she's still attracted to women.
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What's the difference between an uneducated and a homophobe?
None.
Uneducated = Homophobe
Whats the difference btw GAYS and LES?
Stick + Stick = Big stick
Hole + hole = Big hole
Just what does a cross dressing married heterosexual man got anything to do with gays? Your comment just goes to show your own ignorance and confusion!
Thats why I said GAY people very bad influence on society.