Thomas Araguz had been married to Heather Delgado and had two children with her before they divorced in 2008. He married Nikki Araguz later that year. Nikki ran a magazine and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Wharton while married to Thomas.
According to the newspapers:
The suit says Nikki Araguz legally changed her name Feb. 9, 1996 from Justin Graham Purdue to Nikki Paige Purdue.
The suit includes a copy of the name-change request with the statement, “I, Justin Purdue, am a woman with male anatomy, working toward a sex change. I have been living and working as a woman for over one year and seek to make my new name legal and permanent” included in the filing.
The suit says Texas “courts have held that someone who undergoes a sex change procedure remains as a matter of law, the same sex they were born as.”
Correct. Neither “name change” nor “genital mutilation” = “sex change”. It’s a chromosomal issue that cannot be cut or renamed away... period.