  :Article about a trans-marriage that was invalidated.  I realize it's from WorldNetDaily, and they're not exactly sympathetic to trans issues, but it does underscore the point that it's essentially trivial for a trans person to enter into a marriage and get a license, although the likelihood of that marriage standing up in court is up for debate, and will typically rest along lines similar to homosexual marriage.  Typically from what I've seen is that a court discussing if a transsexual in a heterosexual marriage fits their role will find that the marriage is invalid, and anull the marriage, basically in an attempt to apply a DOMA law against the marriage.  They typically specifically mention that they do NOT consider the question of if it would then be legal for a trans person to enter into a homosexual marriage, and it's likely that a court likely to anull a trans marriage is likely to do so on either side of the issue.  :The common criteria tends to be that many places/judges would still legally regard the trans person as their assigned birth gender and in fact, often times, this can come to issue in intersexual marriages also.  Although, since the trans person is now visually identifiable as the opposite gender, attempting to gain a marriage license under the provision that they are of their assigned birth gender is likely to be rejected.  Basically, either courts will be lenient and end up allowing any marriage desired by a transperson, or they will be strict, and use DOMA against a trans person in a marriage regardless of the partner.  I would say the only place where a judge in a strict setting would be likely to enforce a marriage involving a trans person, is if their partner is an opposite-transition person.  Thus, an MTF and an FTM are likely to be able to legally marry regardless of the considerations of the court... well, unless the court just wants to strike down transsexuals getting married just on principle.  :Unfortunately, the situation is one where depending on where the couple lives, depends on how likely their marriage is to survive a legal threat.  Typically, in order to get the marriage granted in the first place, they will need to be legally recognition of their gender, but that legally recognition is not guarenteed to follow them whereever they move, and the DOMA act is likely to allow states to break those marriages just from moving to them.  Basically, marriage as a transsexual is fairly easy to get, but if it's ever legally challenged you typically have quite an uphill battle.  I would almost say, the only best solution is to immediately sue your partner in every new state you move to in order to have a court rule on the legallity of your marriage for that particular state.  (  