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Transgendered people face unique legal issues with regard to marriage.
This article summarizes the legal issues surrounding marriage for transgendered people and suggests some ways that transgendered persons can protect their marital relationships. Many people are aware that transgendered individuals are often able to enter into a heterosexual marriage after undergoing sex-reassignment. What may be less well known, however, is that a transgendered person may also be married to a person of the same sex. That situation arises, for example, when one of the spouses in a heterosexual marriage comes out as transsexual and transitions within the marriage. If the couple chooses to stay together, as many do, the result is a legal marriage in which both spouses are male or female.