Linda Gail Carter
Posted on 06/02/2004 11:30:09 PM PDT by ambrose
Click2Houston.com
Houston Judge To Decide Same-Sex Divorce Case Transgender Male Declared Female By Texas Court
POSTED: 5:34 p.m. CDT June 2, 2004 UPDATED: 5:39 p.m. CDT June 2, 2004
HOUSTON -- A judge began hearing what could be considered one of Houston's most unique divorce cases Wednesday. The lawsuit seeks to end the marriage of two women, one of whom was once a man.
Transgender Testifies In Same-Sex Divorce Case
It began when a Texas court declared a transgender man to be woman, and she then legally married another woman in Nevada.
Linda Gail Carter, 60, is asking state Family Court Judge Lisa Millard to void her marriage to Constance Gonzales.
Carter said she first realized she was a female when she was 6 years old and known as James Murphy.
After undergoing procedures to make her physically a woman, Carter had her gender legally declared to be female, and got a Texas driver's license with her new name.
Carter married Gonzales on Oct. 31, 1998 in Las Vegas.
But Carter said the marriage went sour in 2002 after she said Gonzales committed fraud and stole more than $500,000 from a funeral home business.
Carter is suing Gonzales to end the marriage and to seek damages.
Carter believes that since Texas does not recognize same-sex marriages, the judge should void the union.
But in court, Gonzales' attorney presented numerous documents that showed Carter presented herself as James Murphy even after the legal name change.
The judge asked Carter on the stand, "Yes or no -- I want to know, are you a male or female?"
"According to the doctors, I'm both," Carter testified.
Judge Millard then told Carter's attorney, "If you are willing to say your client is a male, then you can go on and get this divorce."
Carter's attorney, Elsi Martin-Simon, said, "That's for my client to say."
Carter never answered.
A gag order prevents both attorneys from commenting on Wednesday's testimony.
The trial resumes Thursday.
Eek! Whatever it is, it's ugly as sin!
This mentally ill man married a woman. This is just a divorce of a man from a woman.
Transgendered is a mental illness which is treated by mutilation plastic surgery. There is no same sex here.
Even the ADA does not recognize transgendered as a disability.
There is the texas divorce case where the texas attorney general intervened on a judges mistaken signing of a divorce for a civil union between two homosexuals. The judge undid his order as void as a matter of law. (IOW it could not exist at law)
This "couple" married in Nevada because one was XX and one was XY. Not because one has a certain type of mental illness.
'unique' is an absolute. It means: there's only one.
Adding the 'most' modifier implies there are several 'unique'. Question for the journalism major that wasted my oxygen to write this stupid screed.... What is the plural of unique???!!!???
Answer?: "THERE AIN'T NONE"
Idiot journalists..... And they still don't know the difference between 'like' and 'as'.... /rant off
/john
Seems to me that DNA should be used to prove this sort of case.
I thought John Candy was dead ...
I died a little inside when I saw that picture. Horrific. Like Butterbean with a mullet.
The Doctors who created this monster are supposed to know better. "He" is to be pitied, but they shouldn't be allowed to practice.
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This is the beginning of the hell we've brought upon ourselves by rejecting moral absolutes, or allowing others to reject them and not taking action a couple or three decades ago.
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This piece of human debris was nevef a man.
There's a real simple test for what this individual is. Have him drop his drawers in the judge's chambers. Either he has a penis and is a man, or lacks one, and is nothing. You can chop a man's penis off, and fill him full of female hormones and silicone implants, but it still won't give him ovaries and female sexual sensation.
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