‘I would always have fallen in love with Juno, no matter when we had met,’ he says. But after I began this journey in 2011, when I thought about being a bride it made much more sense, in the same way all of my life made more sense to me then.’įor Max, 26, who proposed last November with a platinum and diamond ring at their home in Worthing, West Sussex, what’s important is marrying the Juno he met 18 months ago, not the person she was in the past. ‘I was really uncomfortable with any sort of traditional “boy role” and being a groom is one of the most gendered roles we place on any human. ‘Before I transitioned, I wasn’t interested in marriage,’ says Juno, 38, a bestselling novelist and journalist. When Juno walks down the aisle on her father’s arm, it will be a major milestone in the journey she’s been on for the past nine years, which has seen her transition from the male body she was born in, to becoming a trans woman. Just one aspect of this visibly besotted pair’s day sets them apart from thousands of other couples who will say ‘I do’ this summer. The venue – an artist’s former home in the South Downs National Park – is booked, a vintage Vivienne Westwood gown hangs in Juno’s wardrobe and the guest list has been drawn up, ready for invitations to be posted. With just three months to go before they marry, Juno Dawson and her fiancé Max Gallant are brimming with excitement as they discuss their wedding plans. Eimear O’Hagan hears the story of a thoroughly modern romance But she never dared to dream she’d find a man who’d love that woman. Juno Dawson has had a long, often heartbreaking struggle to become the woman she always knew she was. ‘Some men with trans women keep them in the shadows.
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