AMONG the many topics left out of nearly every mainstream newspaper and television report about the lawsuit against Nikki Araguz, are the number of people in Texas and across the U.S. who have had genital reconstruction surgery, and who could potentially be affected by an unfavorable appeals court ruling, if the Delgado v. Araguz lawsuit gets that far. While the number of such people may represent a small fraction of the U.S. population, the numeric totals may surprise many people who are not otherwise informed about the prevalence of people born with intersex and/or transsexual conditions. There are likely hundreds of such married couples living in Texas, some who have married in Texas and some who have married elsewhere, whose marriages exist in a state of legal uncertainly while they remain resident in Texas, because of the confused status of Texas marriage law. …
The Trial of Nikki Araguz: The Lawsuit Against Nikki Araguz Could Impact Many People in Texas
Editorial comment:
THE apparently complete lack of support for Nikki Araguz and her attorneys in this trial from LGBT – I for intersex seems to be excluded from most if not all such groups – equality, human rights and justice organizations in the US is quite disgusting.
Does it have anything to do with Nikki being intersex and perhaps to be shunned for it or is it sheer blindness to the bigger picture?
This trial is about more than the right to an inheritance – Nikki Araguz is apparently on trial for being intersex. Intersex people as a whole would seem to be on trial for being born intersex.
There is no question that the outcome of this trial – this witch hunt – will have serious and far-reaching implications for intersex, transsexual and transgender people throughout Texas, throughout the whole of the United States and throughout those other nations, usually English-speaking, that pay particular attention to case law in other English-speaking nations.
Remember how Corbett vs Corbett – the trial of April Ashley that resulted in the dissolution of her marriage – then so adversely affected case law in Australia and other nations.
Remember how the Family Court of Australia’s Re: Kevin positively affected case law in Florida in the Kantaris case.
Remember the butterfly effect – how something that occurs in one part of the world can blow up big in another part.
OII Australia calls on all US LGBT and LGBTI organizations to pull their collective fingers out and to get onside with Nikki Araguz immediately
There are far bigger things at stake here than your apparent, entrenched exclusion of intersex aka “non-inclusion” as we have been warned to use as an alternative phrase for the sake of the ideological correctness.
The only way through all of this is universal marriage equality for everyone.
