Clarification in New York Marriage Rules for Transgender People

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Clarification in New York Marriage Rules for Transgender People
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Austen Crowder
March 8, 2011 12:30 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2011/03/clarification_in_new_york_marriage_rules_for_trans.php


Jane and John are both transgender. They are an opposite-sex couple who have been in a relationship for over a decade. In Dec. 2009, they attempted to marry in the Bronx. They fulfilled all of the requirements for receiving a marriage license in New York City and presented their government-issued photo identification - the only identification required by the City Clerk's office. Rather than issuing the marriage license, the City Clerk refused and instead demanded that Jane and John produce their birth certificates before they could be married - something not required of other marriage license applicants.