Homosexual Marriage is still illegal in Texas.
Then he gets no financial benefits that are not specified by the deceased in the will.
Totally weird, bizarre, and crazy but true:
According to the State of Texas it isn’t same sex marriage because “in 2009, lawmakers changed the Texas family code to permit an applicant for a marriage license to use a sex change court order to nullify the birth certificate gender. The new law also allows a driver’s license to serve as proof of identity and age.”
In Texas, if you have a sex change order from a court, you are legally the opposite sex, in this case a woman. Since her legal sex is “woman” the marriage amendment which allows only one man and one woman isn’t violated. The legislature just redefined woman.
Why not just use “XX” chromosome requirements? Because 0.1 to 0.2% of live births are of so-called intersex people, who are both male and female. That means somewhere between 3 million and 6 million Americans are, scientifically speaking on a genetic level, both man AND woman due to their chromosomes.
And that doesn’t even include the people who are born as chimeras, like that Lydia Fairchild woman who naturally conceived and gave birth to her children but wasn’t genetically related to them (Google her case - it is unbelievable)!
My question is: What do we do with the intersex people? We’re talking about the population of the state of Tennessee on the high end. That’s a lot of male/female hybrids nature churns out.
So, the question is ... how do you define man? There are women with quasi-penises that are XX. There are men who have no penis who are XY.
This was one of the questions my genetics professor posed in college. I still don’t have an answer, by the way, so your guess is as good as mine.