Transgender teen couple fall in love and transition together

(The best video about the couple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDz8CE21pQ)

Just as the world shifts towards greater acceptance gays, a new dynamic has been thrown into the equation. Many in the Western world are only now coming to understand the complexities and nuances of transgender individuals -- people who are born as one gender, but feel as though they were meant to be born another.

For two Oklahoma transgender teens the process of rediscovering their gender was done with the love and support of each other, even when some people in their lives turned their backs.

Only two years ago, Arin Andrews, 17, and Katie Hill, 19, were a different gender than they are now. Arin met Katie in the spring of 2012, just a few weeks before her high school graduation, her 18th birthday -- and perhaps most significantly, her gender-reassignment surgery. They met at a support group for transgender people and instantly fell in love.

“I hated my breasts, I always felt like they didn’t belong. Now I finally feel comfortable in my own body," Arin tells the tabloid newspaper The Sun about surgically removing his breasts last month. “Now when I’m out in a public pool or lifting weights, no one raises an eyebrow. They just think I’m a guy."

In May 2012, Katie, had gender-reassignment surgery, thanks to an amazing $40,000 donation from an anonymous donor who read her story in a local newspaper, reports Tula World.

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“Being transgender myself, I understand Arin better than anybody else -- how good he feels and how complete he feels," Katie tells The Sun about Arin's surgery.

Their parents are supportive of their decisions and have seen first-hand how much their children emotionally suffered before transitioning.

"Knowing what Katie went through for eight-plus years -- there's nothing worse than watching your child suffer," Katie's mom tells Tulsa World, referring to her daughter's depression.

"It's still my baby -- male or female, she's still my child. And I don't have to kneel at her grave," she continues.

Katie's father, who once had a very hard time accepting his daughter's changed gender and mourned the loss of his son, finally came around at her graduation.

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"I see it now. I know this is who she's meant to be," he told her that fateful day.

Arin's mom expresses a similar sentiment of empathy and understanding.

"Every transgender person would love to have the transformation physically because it just completes them as a person," she tells The Mirror. "Seeing Katie go through her surgery was helpful to Arin."

The story of Katie and Arin is a touching one, but not all transgender teens are so lucky.

There have been a number of reports about transgender children facing discrimination at school, including challenges with school boards which only allow a transgender person to use the bathroom of their birth gender.

And some teens have been denied running as prom king or queen, if their birth gender is different than what they want to run for.