Out Magazine

Nikki Araguz vs. The State

By William Van Meter
Wed Aug 17 2011

http://www.out.com/detail.asp?page=1&id=31581

Her childhood began in a welter of sexual confusion and ended when she was raped and infected with HIV. Her first marriage was destroyed in a blur of drugs and dysfunction, her second when her firefighter husband died in the line of duty. But the biggest fight of this fiesty Texan's life is taking place in the courts, in a frontline battle for transgender rights that is reverberating through the nation.