Marriage Between Transgender Woman and Man Invalidated (USA Today)
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-13-transgender-marriage_N...
"Tennessee authorities have invalidated the 18-month marriage of a transgender woman and a man, saying the state considers them both men.Jo T. Rittenberry, 46, was born a man and claims to have had sex reassignment surgery in Canada. The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle reported that she had officials legally change the gender on her Kentucky birth certificate and Tennessee driver's license.
Rittenberry married Jeffery Scott Phillips, 36, in November 2007.
Kelly Farmer, director of communications at the Davidson County Clerk's Office, said Tennessee authorities will not honor the marriage because Rittenberry was not born a woman.
Tennessee does not permit same-sex marriage and does not recognize gender change even after sex reassignment surgery."
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It really sucks that state governments and the nation's culture in general is so unaccepting of peoples' personal decisions concerning self-identity and gender... I bet it just blows some peoples' minds that some people don't identify with the sex they were born as (or the sex they were assigned, in some cases) and want to alter what "society deemed best". Hopefully our generation will se politics more open and understanding of self expression...
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uroborus8
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Tennessee's law goes against everything the medical community says about transgender people. This is an insult to humanity.
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