To: Kahonek
Ticked off a couple of legislators royally when a normal woman and a transgender married recently, but it was all perfectly legal. Are you saying the transgender was a woman who was genetically a man? To which you replied "yes". That is a genetic female marrying a genetic male.
The other case, a woman who is genetically a male but externally a female wanting to marry a man, how often does that status occur statistically? How do you know it is illegal? In this case, the birth certificate would identify the woman as a woman, and she should therefore be legally able to marry.
To: tuesday afternoon
Sorry not to get back to you sooner... I had to duck out. In answer to your question, the case would occur quite infrequently. It is legal in some states, illegal in others. In some states, the birth certificate matters, in other states it's the genes. In a state where genes matter and such an individual marries anyway, that marriage will be declared null and void by a court if anyone were to challenge it (e.g. heirs of the spouse). If the county clerk knows about the genes, a license will not be issued.
532 posted on
02/06/2004 11:00:39 AM PST by
Kahonek
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