LAWS OF EVE - Same-sex marriages are void ... even after a sex change

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LAWS OF EVE - Same-sex marriages are void ... even after a sex change
Jamaica Gleaner
By Sherry Ann McGregor
March 16 2009


http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090316/flair/flair7.html


In last week's article I set out the grounds on which the Supreme Court could grant a decree of nullity of a marriage. One such ground is that "the parties to the marriage were, at the time of the marriage, of the same sex".

One reader commented that the wording of that ground seemed curious and wondered whether it left open the possibility for transsexuals to argue that gender reassignment will enable them to marry persons who were of the same sex that they had prior to surgery.