Gender issue cancels couple's Reno wedding plans

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Gender issue cancels couple's Reno wedding plans

By Mark Robison • March 15, 2010

http://www.rgj.com/article/20100315/NEWS/3150330/1321/news

Reed High School graduate Rebecca Love and her partner were denied a marriage license March 6 by county officials, forcing them to cancel plans the next day in a Reno chapel as Love's family watched.

Her partner is a transgender surgery candidate named Danielle Pauline Severson, but born Dana Paul Severson, who is taking female hormones. The couple had Severson's birth certificate showing she was born a man, divorce papers from a marriage to a woman, her name-change documentation and photo identification.