MOREHEAD, Ky. – A woman who changed her sexual identity to a man and his female wife disclosed Saturday that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis unwittingly issued them a marriage license seven months ago.

Davis has attracted national attention by refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples since taking office in January because of religious objection. She stopped issuing all marriage licenses in June after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide.

Camryn Colen, who transitioned from a woman to a man, didn’t know if Davis would have issued the marriage license to he and his wife, Lexie, if Davis knew the backstory. He went public with it at a courthouse rally denouncing her resistance to the Supreme Court ruling and gay marriage.

“We’re not doing it for us. We’re married. We’re doing it for the rest of the (LBGTQ) community,” he said. “We’re going to prove to Kim Davis that she can’t judge a book by its cover.”

Colen said he married his wife in a small, private ceremony after obtaining the marriage license in February. Colen said Davis’ office did not ask for a driver’s license or other identification. Lexie produced her birth certificate.

Colen said his wife, who was pregnant at the time by artificial insemination from donor sperm, gave birth to the couple’s daughter shortly afterwards.

“I saw Kim Davis, but I didn’t talk to her. We went in there just as any other straight couple would,” said the 30-year-old Colen. “When we walked in to her office she just saw two people in love.”

He said he officially changed his name from Cathy “Cat” Colen to Camryn Colen in January of 2013 following multiple sex-change surgeries. He said he knew he was different as a child growing up in Zanesville, Ohio. “I played with boys’ toys,” he said. “I was attracted to girls.”

Colen said as a woman he enlisted in the U.S. Army after high school, deployed to Iraq and during his military service realized he wanted to change his sex to male.

He said his wife Lexie identifies as pansexual and that they were close before Colen’s transition. The couple moved from Ohio to Rowan County, Kentucky, last year because the area was “beautiful and quiet.”

Colen said he’s a pizza delivery man and that his wife cares for their 6-month-old daughter, LaKoda Rae.

Details for this story were provided by The Independent, Ashland, Ky.