When is it legal for two women to marry? When one of the women is a male-to-female transsexual, according to the states of Kansas and Texas, because certain underlying traits -- like the chromosonal makeup -- remain "male" even if externally the person appears "female." But for a same reason, a male-to-female transsexual is not allowed to mary a male in those same states. William Saletan examines the strange politics of transsexual marriage at slate.com.
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