Transgender Widow: Exclusive Footage
Published : Thursday, 22 Jul 2010, 10:54 PM CDT
SALLY MACDONALD
Reporter
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HOUSTON - It's a powerful interview you'll see only on FOX 26 News. We've obtained exclusive rights to a video featuring Nikki Araguz more than a decade ago.
She's the transgendered widow of Wharton firefighter Thomas Araguz, who died battling an egg farm fire July 4th. His mother and ex-wife are now suing Nikki Araguz says she has no legal rights to his assets because she was born a man. Texas doesn't recognize same-sex marriages.
In the video shot 15 years ago by a local college student, some light is shed on Nikki's conflicted life. The video was for a film project that was never completed. Nikki would have been 19 or 20 at the time. Throughout the video she appears feminine and playful, but it doesn't take long before Nikki starts talking about her tortured identity.
All for greed and hatred this poor womans past is being dug up and aired to everyone... I wonder how the mother and ex-wife would feel if the same were to happen to them.
I'm sure the ex wife is an EX for a reason...
Quote from: LynnER on July 23, 2010, 03:07:34 PM
All for greed and hatred this poor womans past is being dug up and aired to everyone... I wonder how the mother and ex-wife would feel if the same were to happen to them.
I'm sure the ex wife is an EX for a reason...
As far as i remember from this, the court case is a mixed bag, the family says she deceived him in marriage which complicates things. They say when he found out they separated then he died. If its true that he didnt know that was TS when he married her then she did deceive him because he wasnt given the choice to say yes or no to the marriage after hearing the information. As sickening as it is having to tell someone i love and risk losing them is a requirement, and if i didnt tell him the courts might reason that i was deceiving him, but more over, i would feel guilty for not doing it. Thankfully my fiance knows and he still wants to marry me, however that might not have been the case in this marriage.
I think that is the real basis of the case not that it would be a "Gay Marriage" because she legally changed all her documentation and the state and federal government signed off, so she is legally a woman and therefor can marry a man, if they say NO to this, then state signed documents have no value in society other then visibility and can therefor be construed as fraud by the state and or federal government and more over a civil liberty attack aimed at a specific minority group which can be contested all the way up the supreme court which would have to file in favor of TS marriage because female and male cannot be determined at a genetic level because of people who are intersex.
There was a court hearing last Friday. Does anyone know the outcome?