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A transgender woman who was rejected by her Facebook love interest as a man says they are now a couple and in love following her transition.

She was still living as a man called Aaron when she first approached 28-year-old Jared Norris on social media, believing he was "cute". At the time, Jared kindly rejected her.

But two years later, after Erin had "come out as trans and a woman", he liked one of her pictures on Instagram and they began dating.

Today, they are a couple - with Jared saying he loves the fact that his "beautiful" Marilyn Monroe-lookalike girlfriend is "willing to be herself". Erin, who has undergone two years of hormone replacement therapy and breast augmentation, is now hoping for gender reassignment surgery.

She and Jared went public with their relationship within the first couple of months. But since then, they say they have received hateful messages and even death threats online. She and her partner have received hateful messages and even death threats after going public with their relationship. The couple defend their relationship, now two years strong. They say that ‘love is love’ and they have chosen to ignore the haters.

She added: “Prior to dating Jared, I had been seeing people but nothing serious came about because they were afraid to tell their family or friends. “They would tell me they really liked me but couldn’t risk their family knowing I was trans and that was what hurt the most.

Erin, who is happy being "passable" as a transgender woman, still hopes to undergo gender reassignment surgery in the future.

But her partner says he already thinks she looks beautiful and will "love her exactly the same", regardless of the surgery.

“She wants to look more feminine, but to me she already looks beautiful," Jared said.

“I will still love her exactly the same, she is still the same person regardless.