Beating a dead horse #4 (this one's funny)

I'm not sure I can get this straight (pun intended):

Two years ago, Texas was one of the last states to change their law to allow a transgendered person to submit court-acknowledged sex change documents to obtain a marriage license. So, if John becomes Mary, Mary should be able to marry Joe. A heterosexual marriage, no?

But now the good people of Texas have waked up and realized that this is too close to allowing the marriage of two people of the same sex. After all, Mary was born John, and if John marries Joe, that's Gay Marriage. No, no, no way. . . . we can't have that.

So now a bill has been proposed in the Texas legislature to correct this unintended error. The new law would revert back to a 1999 state appeals court decision that says, when it comes to marriage, gender is assigned at birth and remains unchanged throughout life.

But here's another wrinkle they may not have thought of:

If, instead of wanting to marry Joe, Mary (nee John) wants to marry Susie, that would be allowed, because Mary is really still John according to the Texas appeals court and should be perfectly free to marry Susie -- a heterosexual marriage. No?

But isn't that even closer to same-sex marriage? Two women?

Go figure . . .

Ralph