The woman who signed one of America's first bans on transgender healthcare for minors is now at the centre of a deeply personal scandal after audio and text messages allegedly showed her husband privately confessing to a dominatrix that he wanted to transition to a woman.
Bryon Noem, 56, a South Dakota insurance executive and the husband of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, allegedly sustained a nine-year online relationship with Shy Sotomayor, a sex worker and dominatrix from Colorado Springs known professionally as Raelynn Riley.
