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[Kosheh]

The U.S. only recognizes two genders AFAIK, so whichever one of the two someone legally falls under

Are you confusing sex with gender right now? It's totally understandable, given recent news people think they're interchangable (much like we used to interchangably use "gender" and "sex"...uh, the definition of "gender" is a little more flexible circa 2014)

* Kosheh pulls around the bend in the tumblr trolley. beep beep! it's time for today's gender politics lesson!

crash course: a FtM transgender individual doesn't mean they want to necessarily become a man; the FtM transgender merely wants to be recognized within the societal/cultural roles as a male, which might include taking hormone supplements to achieve the characteristics of the other gender. They're not seeking sexual reassignment surgery - that's...too far, in a sense, and that person would then be considered an FtM transsexual.

sex = male/female. biological differences. thanks to the same-sex marriage law, people of the same sex can now be married and enjoy the same benefits opposite-sex married couples did.
gender = masculine/feminine. the characteristics that society and culture delineates as "masculine" or feminine".

It's easier to explain with something like asexual and agender. Of course, "sex" is used differently here to describe the sexual orientation.
asexual = lack of sexual preference
agender = genderless; prefers not to conform to any gender standard as they don't identify with any particular gender


That said, I think you'll be okay so long as you correctly mark down your biological sex down on the marriage paperwork at this point; gender is a whole other issue that's...probably okay to lay low for now so long as all peoples can go get married. So like, if you have same-gender marriage between a cisgender female and a agender individual (born male) who want to get married, there would have actually been no debate since biologically, it's an opposite-sex marriage.