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Would there be a risk of the marriage being revoked at a later stage if your gender becomes officially recognised through whatever process?

No, because they oblige you to have a divorce from any official partnership before you go through. It was never an issue for me as I didn't have a partnership, but a lot of my official pre-op recognition was dependent on my being single.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 11:30:07 AM EST
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That has got to be one of the most absurd regulations I've ever heard of. Restricting medical treatment on the basis of who you live with?

Makes one want to go to sleep and not wake up until the 22nd century.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 02:02:14 PM EST
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Yea, but if you're married, which is currently legally restricted to heterosexual couples, then if you change sex your relationship legally changes.

Plus a lot of this comes from custom and practice when lesbian relationships weren't officially recognised. Also in the UK the medical profession make you jump through a lot of stupid hoops to prove to them you're serious and worth wasting money on.

Plus there's a whole heap of expectations from psychologists that the transgendered should conform to stereotypical feminine behaviours, one of which must involve a desire to play happy families with men. Being sexually orientated towards women definitely counts against you and so being married or wanting to continue a relationship with a woman would be the end of your ambitions to change gender.

And then bigot wimminists use conforming to those very stereotypes against us. Gah, ya can't win !!

Again, I'm glad I didn't have to put up with any of that crap, but those who did remain angry even decades later. The psychiatrist who started the gender re-assignment clinic was such a monster that, 25 years after his death, his resting place apparently still smells of wee from those who've pissed on his grave.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 02:40:29 PM EST
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