Marriage equality and transgender issues

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This is exactly why it is so ridiculously silly that there are laws that prohibit humans from marrying any human they want.

Let’s take California for example. If two men want to get married, they can’t. However - if one goes through the necessary requirements for a legal gender change (which involves one surgery) in CA - they can have a perfectly legal opposite-sex marriage. Call it a loophole, I call it downright silly (but thank the lord it exists). In other states, it requires two surgeries. Some don’t allow you to get a legal gender change at all. Others require you to be 18. Some require you to go to years of therapy. It’s silly to think that it really matters what kind of chromosomes someone has. Gender is more complicated than that.

My favorite quote from the article I linked is:

“Taking this situation to its logical conclusion, Mrs. Littleton, while in San Antonio, Tex., is a male and has a void marriage; as she travels to Houston, Tex., and enters federal property, she is female and a widow; upon traveling to Kentucky she is female and a widow; but, upon entering Ohio, she is once again male and prohibited from marriage; entering Connecticut, she is again female and may marry; if her travel takes her north to Vermont, she is male and may marry a female; if instead she travels south to New Jersey, she may marry a male.”

Wow. If we could just marry whomever we want - this wouldn’t even be an issue. It shouldn’t be an issue. Any laws based on prohibiting marriage due to biological sex are on their way to becoming antiquated entirely. I’ve known people who were married before as opposite couples, then one of them transitioned to the same gender, then they ended up getting a civil union - thus being doubly married. How lame is it that they needed to do that, and that their marriage validity was in jeopardy?

This isn’t as black and white as some people think it is.