Comments on Advance Indiana™: Indiana Court Of Appeals: Gender Bending Doesn't Void Marriage In Indiana

There's a point at which you must draw the lin...

2013-12-23T10:04:00.103-05:00

There's a point at which you must draw the line legally. If I'm a judge, I'm not going to permit a birth certificate to be amended to change the gender or sex of a person, whatever you want to call it, unless there is medical proof that the person has indeed undergone a change from male to female or vice versa. There are people who have a fetish for cross-dressing who are quite different from transgender persons. Acting out cross-dressers don't get to change their gender; only those who physically have their plumbing altered who no there's no turning back. I'm assuming that Judge Rosenberg required that proof in this case, judging by the number of years which lapsed from the initial name change to the date of the amended birth certificate.

Gary, That's actually indeterminate sex, not ...

2013-12-23T08:40:41.430-05:00

Gary,

That's actually indeterminate sex, not indeterminate gender. The confusion is understandable because people often use "gender" and "sex" as synonyms, but they are not.

It is a physical attribute, Jeff. Nature isn't...

2013-12-23T07:26:20.837-05:00

It is a physical attribute, Jeff. Nature isn't perfect. At least one in one thousand births produces a child born of indeterminate gender. The doctor literally has to ask the parents whether they wish their child to be a boy or a girl. Rather than choose their sex at birth, some physicians now recommend that the parents wait until the child gets a little older to determine with which gender the child identifies before fixing the plumbing surgically to match the gender.

Anonymous 10:34, read and learn, Gender is a role...

2013-12-22T23:48:31.390-05:00

Anonymous 10:34, read and learn,

Gender is a role, not a physical attribute. You mean to say they cannot change their sex. Which, as Gary points out, they can.

Second, why do you care? What business is it of yours? Does it affect you? No. So lighten up, Francis.

Actually, through hormone therapy and surgery you ...

2013-12-22T11:05:56.813-05:00

Actually, through hormone therapy and surgery you can change your gender if you're so inclined. I know someone who is married to a woman who I'm pretty sure has undergone a sex change; I'm just not sure he knows she used to be a he. Maybe we need a law requiring a person who has undergone a change in gender to disclose that fact to prospective spouses.

"What's the status of a marriage entered ...

2013-12-22T10:34:18.761-05:00

"What's the status of a marriage entered into between a man and a woman in Indiana after one of the partners to the marriage changes genders?"

This is not at all surprising.

One cannot change a gender.

Persons of the same gender can never be married.

Once the concepts behind these exotic lifestyles are properly understood, the conclusions are quite simple.