Gay marriage is only legally recognized in a couple (2? Hawaii and Vermont? Or am I making those up?) of states, but there is apparently a loophole around that.
I know a situation where there was a married couple, and after many years, he came out that he had always really felt like he should have been a woman, and a lesbian at that. No, it wasn't just a pickup line. He eventually had gender reassignment surgery, and he legally became a woman. His/her wife decided to stay with him/her and make a go of it.
So I wondered - hmmm, if he was married before, but now he's a woman, doesn't that make the marriage null and void since he's now a woman, married to another woman, and since gay marriage isn't legal in California, his change from being a man to a woman should have voided the marriage contract. Nope, apparently not. It seems that marriage only looks at the genetic nature of the individual, so since he is still genetically a man, he is still legally married to the wife, never mind that he's now legally a woman.
What, these kinds of questions don't occur to you all the time?
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