American Genders #
May 12th, 2009 | In Worth Considering
America’s marriage-like legal rights for gay couples are an unfortunate patchwork, but America’s legal definitions of the transgendered can feel a bit like falling down a rabbit hole:
“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.”
(via The Awl)