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Wow. Ok, question tiem!

Where do these marriage issues leave me? I mean, it's going to be damn hard to say 'you can't marry anyone' because that reeks of obvious discrimination. However, here's the reality for me: while the great majority of the world sees me as female and treats me as female, my ID still reads male so as far as the state is concerned, I'm a dude (*grumble* stupid state). Does this mean I should be able to marry men or women? And let's say I do get married here in the next year or so and at that point I do get my gender change legally recognized; what then? Does my marriage get automatically annulled? And why would our marriage be more worthy of state recognition before a matter of paperwork is accomplished but unworthy after?

Maybe you should change your ID to write "female". Then you can get married to whomever you want to. It was done in my country, where a popular singer, who did get a sex change, changed his sex in official records from male to female. Now he(or she) is able to marry men, although she didn't have any long-lasting marriages that I've heard of.
Besides, it's not just state recognition that matters. It's also the recognition of the people. Not just people you know. Society ought to accept such marriages. And from what I see, society does not accept the marriage of a man with another man, or a woman with another woman.