Why Won't Texas AG Greg Abbott Decide If Trans/Intersex Folks 'Count' As Changing Their Gender For Marriage?
http://www.queerty.com/why-wont-texas-ag-greg-abbott-decide-if-transintersex-folks-count-as-changing-their-gender-for-marriage-20100810/Rather than clarify whether a transgender person can marry somebody of the opposite sex under Texas state law, Attorney General Greg Abbott refused to offer El Paso County guidance on what it should do. Does this show a softening of Abbot's generally anti-gay ways?
Abbot, who's fighting to refuse a divorce to a lesbian couple, has an election to think about, so all these queer-related decisions must be absorbed in that context. So it's curious to see Abbot go from a stance that defends the state's wholehearted ban on same-sex marriage (which includes refusing to recognize marital status in order to grant a divorce) to today, where he won't issue an opinion on whether trans and intersex individuals are considered to have changed their gender and now qualify as entering an opposite-sex relationship.
