Update On Texas Senate Bill 723
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
24 March, 2011
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-texas-senate-bill-723.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-texas-senate-bill-723.html)
HB 3666 in the 2009 session clarified the list of acceptable identity documents that could be presented for use to obtain a marriage license. One of those documents was a court ordered name and gender change.
This bill was penned in response to the ongoing Nikki Araguz case and the coverage its getting in the Houston area and in the blogosphere in which our trans sister is being sued for her widow's benefits by her late husband Thomas Araguz III's ex-wife Heather Delgado and his mother Simona Longoria.