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Article: COLUMN: Sex changes should be recognized in Ohio
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- March 22, 2006
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Chris Kok
University Wire
03-22-2006
(Daily Kent Stater) (U-WIRE) KENT, Ohio -- Ohio is one of only a few states that does not recognize sex changes. This leaves transsexuals in a sort of netherworld, where they are, for all intents and purposes, one sex but still labeled as the other.
To get a better idea of why people would want to have a sex change and what recognition of the sex change would mean to them, I interviewed Michael Trimm, a pre-op female-to-male transsexual.
I asked him why he wanted to have a sex change in the first place. He said he had been pressured to be a female; however, he never felt like a female. He didn't want to be pressured to be something he was not.
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