You are now husband-wife and wife
March 24th, 2007
A female couple emerged from the Milwaukee County Courthouse yesterday as wife and wife. The hitch: one of the women is still a man.
Circuit Judge David Hansher confirmed with doctors that Barbara Lynn Terry possesses male genitalia and thus her marriage with new wife Nicole Winstanley is not prohibited under Wisconsin’s new same-sex marriage ban.
Barbara Terry legally changed her name from Ronald Francis Terry in 1980. Nicole Terry recently moved to Milwaukee from Melbourne, Australia after meeting Barbara on an Internet dating site.
I even have to admit things sound a bit weird. You see, when Barbara was Ronald, he was convicted in 1970 for rape. In an interview with the Journal Sentinel, Barbara says she has never felt any attraction to women. Nicole, on the other hand, is repulsed at Barbara’s, er, “maleness” and wants sex reassignment surgery as soon as possible.
Madison attorney and director for the family law project at the University of Wisconsin Law School Leslie Shear says the newlyweds should move to Massachusetts pending immigration visa decisions — it’s the only place where their new marriage will be valid post-op.
