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Title: Same-transsexual marriage debate
Post by: Shana A on April 30, 2008, 01:32:15 PM
Same-transsexual marriage debate
Gravatar    Written by Clint Rainey
April 30, 2008    

http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/30/same-transsexual-marriage-debate/ (http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/30/same-transsexual-marriage-debate/)

After media coverage of "pregnant man" Thomas Beatie, transsexualism seems to have suddenly emerged, deus ex machina-style, to point out a variety of flaws in conservatives' arguments against same-sex marriage, even to offer transgender same-sex couples a potential egress into marriage like a wormhole in space.
Title: Re: Same-transsexual marriage debate
Post by: Kaelin on April 30, 2008, 03:17:41 PM
Transgenders and intersexuality are two examples of why legally restricting marriage to mixed-sexed couples is a terrible and inelegant idea.