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Despite all his changes, Jenny says she never considered breaking up with Chaz. "It did get difficult at one point last summer," she says. "It was never in my mind that we would ever break up."

Chaz says it felt as if he and Jenny had to relearn how to communicate with one another. "Things had changed," Chaz says. "Me saying the same thing that I would have before with a deeper voice and more of a presence suddenly didn't mean the same thing to her." 

Even without the surgery, Jenny says that sex with Chaz as a man is different than sex with Chaz the woman. "It's better," she says. "Mentally and emotionally he is more alive."