-
LGBTQ HistoryHalf-Loaves are not enough: How a probate court and legislature failed trans people
In 1987, an Ohio probate court made a ruling preventing a trans woman from marrying. The effects dragged on for 25 years.
-
CommentaryIn 1999 a judge decided a trans woman wasn’t a woman. That decision is still being cited today.
Christie Lee Littleton fought to be recognized as her late husband’s widow.
-
News (USA)
Texas court reverses decision that voided transgender widow’s marriage
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned a judge’s ruling that had voided the marriage of a transgender widow whose firefighter husband died battling a blaze.
-
News (USA)
Transgender woman denied marriage license due to Texas’ gay marriage ban
HOUSTON — The transgender widow of a Texas firefighter, whom a judge ruled in 2011 was not entitled to her late husband’s death benefits because she was born a man, is now challenging Texas law once more by attempting to get married again.
