Shaye Scott grew up in St. George, Utah, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When she told her parents how she felt as a child, the response was neither a hug nor a question: it was a patriarchal blessing and the promise that God could save her.
So she did what she was taught: she married Amanda at 19, as a man, and they built a life together. Three children later, in 2019, Shaye finally confessed to Amanda what she had been carrying since childhood. Amanda did not leave.
In 2023, the public transition came. In February of this year, genital reassignment surgery—the first operation in her entire life that Shaye says she has not regretted for even a second.
Amanda says today that she feels more attracted to Shaye than at any other point in their more than 15 years together. Together, they have amassed more than one million followers while sharing that story.