I'm quite mixed on this actually because if your marriage is declared void then legally you're treated as if you'd never been married at all and this can have an impact on any financial settlement. It isn't impossible to obtain a settlement still but it does make it harder - you would only have a financial settlement if you were married, so if your whole marriage was void, it's harder to obtain one. I worry for women who say, knew their 'husband' was dressing up as a woman on occasion, or was nonbinary, and then later the husband comes out as trans. It will be difficult to then show you didn't already know they were trans and so makes it much harder to argue that the marriage should be void (especially because gay marriage is now allowed). Given that no fault divorce will finally come into effect soon (can't remember exactly when because it was delayed) it seems to me that it may well be financially better for trans widows to obtain a no fault divorce to ensure they get a fair financial settlement as well
Men's gymnastics is a completely different discipline and Men's pelvis gives them an advantage in most horse events. An average Male athlete can transition and be an Olympic medal contender a Female Olympic medal contender would be nowhere near competing at any level above schoolboy in practically all disciplines. Average female athletes transitioning may be able to compete with the Men at their local club in the bottom leagues.
I'm not sure I understand what benefit the spousal agreement has. Is it so that the spouse is able to get a divorce before they're legally in a same sex relationship?
Here’s the thing… a lot of what Lynskey says rings true. As much as my beliefs are totally aligned with Glinner, I do think it’s consumed him and I do think it’s broken him.
There are no FTMs campaigning to compete against males in sports because they’ll get absolutely trounced. It would be pointless.
Can't comment on the legal side of things as I'm not sure either. Was more just highlighting the replies to that tweet, with people accusing the trans widows of transphobia and the usual nonsense - these women are often manipulated and gaslit into accepting their husband's transition and can't speak out about it.
Kumi Yokoyama, a women's football player based in the USA has just "come out" as a transman. She says she is a man but wants to go by "they/them" and continue playing for a women's team, so I don't know if she is trying to say she's male or "non-binary". She said in an interview that when she lived in her home country (Japan) she wasn't accepted and was assumed to be heterosexual and expected to live in the closet, but when she moved abroad to play for an American team she was finally able to be herself. Yet she can't live as an open les, she has to be trans? Similarly there is a Japanese model who moved to the USA several years ago and promptly came out as "non-binary", he said that he'd never felt he was really a man because he dated men and liked "feminine" things. I've known this happen with people from my own culture too. They say they're happy and finally living authentically, but cultural ideas of "you're not a man/woman if you are gay or gender non-conforming" leads to them adopting a trans or non-binary identity
Obviously doesn’t think she is that much of a man if she is still happy to play on the women’s team. Or is it that whole “sex and gender aren’t the same” story again.
No it's kind of the opposite - the GRC (or interim GRC) is what opens the 'window'. I'd have to check but I'm 99% sure a trans widow has 6 months from the date of the GRC/iGRC to have the marriage made void. Someone who is married and seeking a GRC needs the consent of their husband/wife, if the husband/wife says no then an iGRA is granted instead and then this allows either of them to seek an annulment. If the spouse doesn't seek a GRC then the only option for the trans widow is divorce. I'm very interested in what the implications for marriage would therefore be if self ID were to be enshrined in the GRA, but have seen little to no discussion of this whatsoever...it seems to me that if self ID came in and GRCs were no longer needed then by default these marriages would also be voidable, which has pros (spouses not willing to stay with trans partners could leave their marriages more easily than if they had to seek a divorce) but also cons (as I mentioned before, financial settlements for annulments are not guaranteed so could financially disadvantage women seeking to leave trans spouses)
I just cannot with this utter bull. I am seriously hoping this blows up in their faces otherwise I have lost all hope for the future of women’s sports and women’s rights.
If i was a female athlete I would be starting to consider a boycott of the olympics for things like this
