TRANSSEXUAL MARRIAGE LICENSE TRIAL OPENS IN KANSAS: From the Lawrence Journal-World

Sandy Gast insists she was telling the truth earlier this year when she told the Leavenworth county clerk of the district court's office she was a woman intent on marrying Georgi Somers.

Leavenworth County authorities disagreed. After learning Somers and Gast were transsexuals and that Gast had checked the box marked female on the marriage license application, sheriff's deputies went to the couple's home, handcuffed Gast and took her to jail.

Gast, who later was to have a sex change operation but even then considered herself a woman, was forced to strip off her shorts, flip-flops and halter top and shower in front of a male deputy.

Gast, 49, was in court Monday, accused of filing a false marriage-license application, which is a misdemeanor. ...

Kohl said Gast was charged because under Kansas law, marriage is between a man and a woman. Also, the Kansas Supreme Court in 2001 ruled that a person's sex is determined at birth and is not subject to change, no matter what happens in surgery.

Gast's birth certificate, the prosecutor argued, lists her as male. It's also true, he said, that Gast has been married three times -- each time to a woman -- and that one of those marriages produced a child.

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