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PHOENIX — An Arizona judge on Friday refused to grant a divorce for a transgender Arizona man who gave birth to three children after beginning to change his sex from female.

Maricopa County Family Court Judge Douglas Gerlach ruled that Arizona's ban on same-sex marriages prevents Thomas Beatie's nine-year union from being recognized as valid.

Thomas Beatie was born a woman and underwent a double-mastectomy but retained female reproductive organs and gave birth to three children.

Gerlach said he had no jurisdiction to approve a divorce because there's insufficient evidence that Beatie was a man when he married Nancy Beatie in Hawaii.

Beatie is eager to end his marriage, but the couple's divorce plans stalled last summer when Gerlach said he was unable to find legal authority defining a man as someone who can give birth.

"The decision here is not based on the conclusion that this case involves a same-sex marriage merely because one of the parties is a transsexual male, but instead, the decision is compelled by the fact that the parties failed to prove that (Thomas Beatie) was a transsexual male when they were issued their marriage license," he wrote in Friday's ruling.

Gerlach's ruling also said it didn't address whether Arizona law allows a person who was born female to marry another female after undergoing a sex change operation.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights, which isn't involved in the Beatie divorce case, has said courts have declared marriages involving a transgender person invalid in a handful of cases across the country, but that those cases had different factual and legal issues than those in the Beatie case.

Thomas Beatie, known as "The Pregnant Man," was born Tracy Lehuanani Lagondino in Oahu, Hawaii. He began testosterone treatments in 1997 and underwent double mastectomy and chest reconstruction surgery in 2002. He changed his Hawaii driver's license to say he was a man and had a Hawaiian court approve his name change to Thomas.

Gerlach's ruling noted that Thomas Beatie halted the testosterone treatments and that he didn't provide documentation for any additional non-surgical efforts.

Thomas Beatie married his partner Nancy in early 2003 in Honolulu and became pregnant because Nancy was unable to have children. Thomas Beatie conceived with donated sperm and gave birth to children who are now 4, 3 and 2 years old. The couple eventually moved to Arizona.

Beatie has garnered a range of media attention, making the rounds on talk shows such as Larry King and Oprah Winfrey and winning a spot on Barbara Walters' list of "10 Most Fascinating People" in 2008, alongside President Barack Obama, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh and swimmer Michael Phelps. He also published a book, "Labor Of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy," the cover displaying an image of a shirtless Thomas sporting facial hair and holding a hand over his bare pregnant belly.

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Was going to post this in the "North Korea" section but thought it was too comical with its "Engrish" and slanted view.

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Hot off the North Korean Press:

Arms Buildup of U.S. Forces in South Korea Blasted

Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the National Peace Committee of Korea released the following statement Sunday:

It has been disclosed that the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces have been drastically reinforced in the last one to two years in south Korea against the backdrop of their reckless war moves against the DPRK, stunning public at home and abroad.

According to the "2012 report on structure of bases" published by the U.S. Defense Department last year, the number of the U.S. forces in south Korea increased nearly 11 000 troops in September 2009.

Many latest war hardware including at least 160 Bradley armored cars, over 120 M1-A2 Abrams new type heavy tanks, 83 anti-mine special cars and 24 F-16 fighter bombers were additionally deployed in the U.S. forces in south Korea from 2011 to 2012.

This year the U.S. seeks to reintroduce into south Korea the 23rd chemical battalion which was withdrawn in 2004, double AH-64D Apache helicopter squadrons and reinforce Patriot missile forces.

The U.S. forces in south Korea have been reinforced by troops equal to one division in one to two years. The U.S. is mulling steadily introducing ultra-modern war hardware into it. This is a very dangerous move to ignite a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula at any cost.

The U.S. together with the south Korean puppet forces is busy staging the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle war maneuvers against the DPRK with nuclear submarines, B-52, B-2A and other strategic weapons involved, openly revealing its attempt to mount a nuclear attack on the DPRK.

Meanwhile, it is prodding the puppet warmongers into military provocations, vociferating about the "plan for jointly countering the provocation of a local war".

The reinforcement of the U.S. forces in south Korea is part of such moves for a war against the DPRK.

Pursuant to its pivot-to-Asia-Pacific strategy, the U.S. is set to use south Korea as an outpost for holding military hegemony in Northeast Asia and carrying out its strategy for "world hegemony."

The U.S. is kicking up a frantic racket for "sanctions" and intensifying war exercises against the DPRK over its legitimate satellite launch and nuclear test for self-defence, deliberately escalating the tension on the Korean Peninsula. This is aimed to secure a pretext for perpetuating the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea and provoking a war of aggression.

Massive reinforcement of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea will only result in straining the regional situation, escalating arms race and increasing the danger of war.

This troop reinforcement should never be allowed and the public at home and abroad should keep vigilance against it and bitterly denounce it.

The U.S. forces should should be withdrawn from south Korea at once.

The army and people of the DPRK will resolutely foil any aggression move of the U.S. and deal military retaliatory blows at the U.S. military bases and aggression forces in south Korea before anything else.

Here's a link to more NK Press stories: http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

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"Can we get a target description?"

"Well, our IMINT can't get a clear shot at him, it's like he's the predator or something. However, HUMINT says he's the goofy asshole wearing the top 1/3 of a shiny silver poncho & makeup like an extra from Mad Max, so confidence is high that VID will be a cinch."

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