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Title: Texas lawmakers considering proposal to bar transgendered people from getting ma
Post by: Shana A on April 25, 2011, 10:17:07 AM
Texas lawmakers considering proposal to bar transgendered people from getting marriage license

By Associated Press, Monday, April 25, 6:59 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/texas-lawmakers-considering-proposal-to-bar-transgendered-people-from-getting-marriage-license/2011/04/25/AFVcx5gE_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/texas-lawmakers-considering-proposal-to-bar-transgendered-people-from-getting-marriage-license/2011/04/25/AFVcx5gE_story.html)

AUSTIN, Texas — Two years after Texas become one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock.

Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar transgendered people from getting married smacks of discrimination and would put their legally-granted marriages in danger of being nullified if challenged in court.
Title: Re: Texas lawmakers considering proposal to bar transgendered people from getting ma
Post by: Janet_Girl on April 25, 2011, 10:42:28 AM
And next they will be disallowing mixed race marriages.  It is Texas.  They are not known to be progressive.