Judge Rejects Divorce For Transgender Pregnant Man

[DonViejo]

Source: AP

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge on Friday refused to grant a divorce for a transgender Arizona man who gave birth to three children after beginning to change his sex from female.

Maricopa County Family Court Judge Douglas Gerlach ruled that Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriages prevents Thomas Beatie’s nine-year union from being recognized as valid.

Thomas Beatie was born a woman and underwent a double-mastectomy but retained female reproductive organs and gave birth to three children.

Gerlach said he had no jurisdiction to approve a divorce because there’s insufficient evidence that Beatie was a man when he married Nancy Beatie in Hawaii. Beatie is eager to end his marriage, but the couple’s divorce plans stalled last summer when Gerlach said he was unable to find legal authority defining a man as someone who can give birth.

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[cosmicone]

1. Hasn't he heard of sea-horses? n/t

[Blandocyte]

2. Headline would then be: Seahorse Source Of Discourse In Divorce n/t

[nolabear]

5. I genuflect in your general direction!

[Voice for Peace]

7. of course!

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Well the courts better hurry up and find something that this applies to because before

long there will be others.

[hedgehog]

4. I'm sorry to hear of the break-up.

[uppityperson]

6. Do other divorcing couples have to show their genitals before being divorced? Does this mean they

were never married? Good god I will be so glad when this is not an issue.