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Transgender Woman Needs Your Support In Texas
I just posted this in Stearns' activism thread, because I have never started a thread before, but imagine for it to be seen by more people, it deserves its own thread...
I urge anyone interested to please support Nikki Araguz, who is in the court battle of her life. Her recently deceased husband was killed in the line of duty (he was a firefighter) and his family is suing for Nikki to be cut out of his inheritance, pension, and settlement for loss of life due to her being a transgender woman. The media here has been awful, really, probing every detail of her surgery, legal history, and as one would expect, not being the slightest bit competent in their questions of her. She notes in many interviews that she has not even had the time to mourn the tragic loss of her husband. I have been watching some of the news interviews and just want to warn people that it is really frustrating, sad, and heartbreaking. Her assets have been frozen by a Texas judge (as of today), and she is living currently off of donations because she is not allowed access to her accounts (even her own money). Further, this is a potentially, hugely precedent-setting case in Texas, and will overturn the likes of Littleton (an easy Google: Littleton texas transgender). Sorry, I am hurried here, but it is heartbreaking, and transgender, GLBTQ activists groups here are urging support, if even just sending a letter or email is what one can do. I have a news link and can connect anyone to other activists groups, if interested. Link to some news footage: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=7569979 Here is another facebook link for information on how to support: http://www.tgctr.org/2010/07/22/nikki/ |
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I saw this on the news last night..u can bet it really pissed me off that they are doing Niki like this.Her husbands family need atleast a kick in the butt for being such hard hearted mean sprited people,I do hope she gets the money due to her from this.
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And there is some hype out there that Nikki is trying to take this money from the kids (her husband has children with former wife). I just wanted to note that it appears the children will settle just fine (and will get quite a bit of their father's money), and the family is not even suing on behalf of the children. They are after her widow's rights. Nikki apparently paid child support for her husbands kids and made more money than her husband, the breadwinner of the family, from what I have read. She is also standing to lose all of her and her husband's current assets, too, from what I understand. Apparently Nikki's inlaws and her husband's ex-wife are trying to take everything. |
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I had no idea... I will post this on a number of other sights (activism) that I belong too - as well as my facebook accounts (work one has 5500 people).
This is an absolute travesty. Julie |
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I saw this article. My first thought was "how could they do this to the woman their son obviously loved?" And then I thought "it's too bad he didn't have a will", because whether or not Nikki was his wife in the legal definition in Texas, she would have a much stronger case if there had been a proper will in place. Now of course I'm just assuming there wasn't one, as I didn't see anything about that mentioned in the article I read, and surely things wouldn't have gone this far if a valid will had been presented. Am I being naive?
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Here is another link.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/7120408.html Heartbreaking..the picture of her. Just heartbreaking. |
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Firie - thanks for posting this. We saw the article in our local paper today and will be watching this closely. It is very scary. Was there a will? Melissa |
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If there is an F on her birth certificate and they are married, then it should be set as legal and definitive. Either way, it shouldn't matter whether there was a will or not. She was married to him and deserves the same rights as any other couple.
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In Texas, the Littleton case made it clear that you ARE the gender you were assigned at birth and no surgery/hormones will alter that fact--and, consequently, your marriage, for legal purposes, will be deemed a same sex marriage; therefore it is an invalid marriage and not recognized. The Littleton case made it clear that no one who changes their sex will be afforded any privileges as a heterosexual marriage. |
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Of course it doesn't make it right but, unfortunately, it is the law.
I was commenting on YOUR statement saying that if there is an F on her BC then their marriage should be "legal and definitive". It should be...but this is not the case. Maybe we are misunderstanding each other. I thought you were stating that their marriage is legal--but it isn't. (at the moment due to Littleton). ETA: Trust me; I know how "not right" it is to not have a marriage recognized due to a state having a specific law that doesn't recognize a marriage where one partner is trans. Last edited by Soon; 07-23-2010 at 06:53 PM. |
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The article in Arwen's post says that the husband and wife were recently separated when the husband discovered that his wife had been born a man. We can't know what he said to his family, or how upset or angry he may have been. If he married her without knowing this, he could have been pretty upset and vented that to his family - and all of those emotions could still be pretty raw. They may not be being vicious. They may think they are honoring what he would have wanted to get everything for his children in the previous marriage and cutting out his current wife. I'm not saying it's right...just that the story may be more complicated than we think it is.
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My only hope in this big mess is that this lawsuit ends up challenging the Littleton law and it all gets overthrown. In the meantime I feel terrible for Nikki Aruguz who is trying to mourn and fight this at the same time. I imagine all she does is cry. It was hard to watch the news video of her. Melissa |
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This is 2010..we are suposed to be the the most up todate country in the world...big azz lie in my book,Texas as well as other states need a big growning up to be considered on the ball about this situation,Louisiana as well.A will would have helped a lot but maybe not...this world is just so screwd up its not real about so much.Something was said on tv that they were married for two years but didnt know about Nikkis transition..somehow I doubt that is even a possablity...his parents didnt know but its wasnt there bizz to know.
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Florida has a similar precedent setting fucked up case (Kanteras vs. Kanteras) where an ex wife went for custody (married to a transman for like ten years I think); she outed her husband (she became born again from what I recall); and the judge ruled their marriage was invalid from the start and any marriages thereafter--where one partner is trans--is not to be considered a valid and legal heterosexual marriage. |
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I hear what you're saying...and my sympathies are with this woman. However, I can't see her telling the family that she's transgendered within a week of her husband's death. Seems to me that the only way the husband's family would know this about her is if he told them before his death.
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I hope this case does challenge the current legal precedent--that was set by the Littleton--that states you are you are the sex you were assigned at birth and no transition will alter that fact for legal (in this case, marital) purposes. |
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