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PAGE 4 T Q-Notes ▼ May 26, 2001 Carolina Funeral Services & Cremation Center Serving the Community with Dignity, Simplicity &c Affordability Traditional Funerals Graveside Services Cremation Options Prearranged Services Independent & Locally Owned 5505 Monroe Road Charlotte, NC 28212 Ph. (704) 568-0023 Fax (704) 568-0677 JEFFREY GRANT KOENIG ATTORNEY-AT-LAW VINSON WASHBURN REALTOR'^ office 704.342.1000 HOME 704.364.6139 EMAIL vwashburn@hotmail.com SUITE 760 THE ADDISON 831 E. MOREHEAD ST. CHARLOTTE, NC 28202-2725 (704) 335-5471 DICICENS &ASSOCIATES MITCHENER 2330 RANDOLPH ROAD CHARLOTTE, NC 28207 FAX: 704.342.1022 MOBILE: 704.451.4952 DIRECT: 704.602.4246 IB Widow’s sex change may not invalidate her marriage by Peg Byron Special to Q-Notes TOPEKA, KS —The Kansas Court of Ap peals ruled that courts must consider a wide range of factors, and not focus solely on sex at birth when judging the legal gender of a person who has had a sex change operation. The ruling came May 11 as the court considered the valid ity of the marriage of J’Noel Gardiner, a transgender woman, to her husband, Marshall Gardiner, now deceased. The ruling reverses a trial court decision that said Gardiners marriage was invalid because she This decision recognizes ...that some people's sex is not determined by their anatomy at birth. was born a man. The appeals court gave a de tailed review of the scientific literature about transgender biology and psychology and rejected what it called “a rigid and simplistic approach” to defining transgender people. Said one activist, “This decision recognizes what transgender people have known for a long time — that some peoples sex is not determined by their anatomy at birth. It is very encourag ing to see this court focus on medical knowl edge and the reality of peoples lives rather than old-fashioned, narrow notions of what it is to be a man or a woman.” Though a woman for manyyears and joined in a legal marriage to a man, Gardiners mar riage was, in essence, voided after the fact, when her husband died and her husband’s estranged son successfully challenged the marriage in a dispute over the estate. The trial court ruled that See WIDOW on Page 12
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