Renate Stoute wrote an autobiographical novel in the late nineties about her transition from man to woman. Her partner Janis Wagemans also wrote about that beautiful, but often frustrating road to completion. In search of her (bisexual) identity, she mainly embraces her lesbian coming out, in a period when Renate is still 'locked down'.
"In 1997, I started writing about my love's transition. What that meant to me as a boy girl who had just come out of the closet twenty years earlier. When she became physically more and more 'locked', my gaze and desire opened up more. It offered additional challenges in our almost symbiotic relationship, in which there was no place for real cheating."
