Posted on 06/12/2014 3:43:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An Italian man who had a sex change to become a woman is challenging the Italian state's refusal to allow him to stay married to his wife.
Alessandro Bernaroli, a bank employee now known as Alessandra, insists that he and his wife of nine years are still very much in love and want to remain married, despite the fact that he switched gender.
His wife, also called Alessandra, says she too wants to stay married despite now finding herself living with a woman.
The couple got married in 2005 after a long courtship but Alessandro says that he hid the fact that he felt trapped inside a man’s body and desperately wanted to be a woman. He finally opened up to his wife, who was shocked but eventually agreed to support him as he underwent a sex change, with operations carried out in Thailand.
The Bernarolis, who are from Bologna in northern Italy, took their case to the courts after their local council ruled that when they tried to renew their identity cards, they could no longer be identified as married.
The unusual case has now reached the Constitutional Court in Rome, which began its deliberations this week. "My body may have changed, but the love between us remains the same. I’m acting to defend our marriage," Alessandro/Alessandra, 43, told La Repubblica newspaper on Wednesday.
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Decisions have consequences.
Sooo if he is still married to his wifey-po, does this make her a Lesbian now? or what?
The error would be, if they choose to regard him as legally a woman. That would be a legal lie.
Tell his wife to run...fast, while she can.
Either Insane or Perverts.....
The Italians are balking because they apparently don’t allow same sex marriage. But they do, then, accept sex change.
To my mind, same sex marriage is more real than a sex change.
They should not recognize sex change. Problem solved.
Perverts, by and large, don't cut off their own penises to feel better about themselves.
That takes a special kind of insanity.
point well taken....
He didn’t switch anything. He’s still male.
Good observation. Our brains can only take so many contradictions before we give it up and just start setting things on fire.
I don’t think homosexual “merging” is allowed in Italy, yet (thank G-d for the pope!).
Awesome point. I keep forgetting he’s still a man regardless.
As the boundaries of hell continue to expand.
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