Meet Nikki Araguz: ''Secret'' transgender wife fights family and Texas law over dead husband's assets [video]
Metro Weekly
Posted by duy
26 July, 2010
http://www.metroweekly.com/news/last_word/2010/07/nikki-araguz-complex-case-secr.html (http://www.metroweekly.com/news/last_word/2010/07/nikki-araguz-complex-case-secr.html)
''Really, all I have to say is, I'm absolutely devastated about the loss of my husband -- fallen firefighter Capt. Thomas Araguz, III -- and horrified at the horrendous allegations ... accusing me of fraud, because they are absolutely not true.''
A tearful Nikki Araguz, the transgender woman who is now fighting in Texas court for the right to the assets of her late husband. He was a firefighter who died at the scene of a fire on July 4. (via YouTube)
Araguz, as her birth certificate states, was born male, but she had apparently transitioned to female some years ago. But it would appear that, according to Texas' laws, transgender people are deemed to remain the same gender as their original birth cerficate shows despite gender reassignment procedures. Also, in Texas, it is illegal for gay men and lesbians to be legally married.