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Title: Transgender invisibility in marriage laws (blog/comments)
Post by: Natasha on June 24, 2008, 05:49:49 PM
Transgender invisibility in marriage laws

http://feministing.com/archives/009450.html
6/24/2008

"if she identifies as a woman, she is a woman" to be true... legally, of course, it is not. The problem is not that Virgina fails to "understand" what Samhita seems to characterize as an irrefutable fact, but rather that state law does not allow individuals to self-define their sex status."