That's pretty wacky. In addition to this really being none of the state's business in the first place (the real issue), this particular case seems to involve a judge with a deficiency in the reasoning-ability department.
A tangential question: how do cases like this even end up in the courts? When we applied for our marriage license no one asked for birth certificates; we applied in person, the clerk looked at us (and mentally checked off "yup, one male and one female"), we answered some questions about mechanical junk like citizenship, and we were issued a license. If one of us had been a transsexual, nothing in the normal process would have turned it up.
So what happened here? Did some relative who has it in for them challenge the license, or what?
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A tangential question: how do cases like this even end up in the courts? When we applied for our marriage license no one asked for birth certificates; we applied in person, the clerk looked at us (and mentally checked off "yup, one male and one female"), we answered some questions about mechanical junk like citizenship, and we were issued a license. If one of us had been a transsexual, nothing in the normal process would have turned it up.
So what happened here? Did some relative who has it in for them challenge the license, or what?