Posted on 03/29/2013 6:52:19 PM PDT by haffast
An Arizona judge has refused to grant a divorce to a transgender man who gave birth to three children.
The judge said there was insufficient evidence that Thomas Beatie was male when he married; the state bans same-sex marriage.
In 2008, Mr Beatie, who had lived as a man for decades, gave birth to a girl, the first of three pregnancies.
He is legally male but kept his female reproductive organs and bore children because his wife was infertile.
A spokesman for Mr Beatie, Ryan Gordon, said Maricopa County Family Court Judge Douglas Gerlach's comments came as a shock. He said his client, who hopes to marry his current girlfriend, planned to appeal the ruling.
"It's unfortunate that the judge out here doesn't recognise marriage in another state,'' Mr Gordon said.
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"I'm clearly a man: socially, legally, psychologically, physically - the whole ball of wax," Mr Beatie told the Arizona Republic in December.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
If it has a uterus and a vagina, it’s not a man.
The press is lying. Again. And so is this weird, sick woman who goes by the name “Thomas”, and pretends to be a man.
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