Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Gay Marriage Push Is Negatively Affecting Legal Transgender Marriages
Posted by Monica Roberts at 9:00 AM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/06/gay-marriage-push-is-negatively.htmlOne of the Prime Directives of being trans is to live our lives just like any cisgender person does. But one complication that has cropped up is when transpeople get married.
In 1960, Jacqueline-Charlotte Dufresnoy married her first husband at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. If she were attempting that today, because of the Roman Catholic Church's faith based hateraid of trans people, she probably wouldn't even be able to book Notre Dame Cathedral, much less get a Catholic priest to marry her.
Some areas of the world and faiths are more enlightened about transgender people getting married than others. But in the United States, marriage has been a major Culture War issue.
