Now What?

The AP wire today brought an article that really makes you want to think about our roles and what we do when those roles are defined by the sex that we are born with. In Florida, (naturally, where else besides California do these issues raise headline news?) a fellow by the name of Lawrence Roach divorced his wife in 2004, after 18 years of less-than-happy marital years.

Now, we may begin to see exactly WHY he had divorced his wife:

Since then, Julia Roach, 55, had a sex change and legally changed her name to Julio Roberto Silverwolf.

Man and Wife??

Lawrence has made the argument in court that since the woman he married no longer exists as a woman, his alimony payments should now stop. There is some sound reasoning there. The purpose of alimony was so that men that divorced a woman would still be responsible for making some income payments as, theoretically; women that have been in the house raising children have a harder time making up the difference in the work-world.

There is no mention of children in the article, but, the bull-dyke lesbian that changed her sex into a male did so at the tender age of 55, and, possibly, she may have trouble getting a job now. Notwithstanding, the fact that Julia changed her name to Julio Roberto Silverwolf is not going to help her …….hmmm……I mean him, to get a job.

The Happy Bride!

Wait a minute. Since alimony is supposed to get women the means necessary to survive after the evil man divorced her, now that it is a man (technically, I guess) shouldn’t said transvestite be able to work for himself in a man’s world? According to the agreement, that Lawrence made, to “…to pay alimony until his ex-wife dies or remarries,” he now has to pay alimony to a man that can then marry a woman, and, presumably, make a living just as a man does? What happens when Julio divorces his future wife (if any would have it) and has to make alimony payments? Lawrence is then paying the second person so that the third victim in this madness gets a payment as well?

That stinks.

Something else also stinks about this conundrum. How did Julio afford this rather lengthy and expensive sex-change? I presume she used the funds that Lawrence has been sending her to eat and live to change into a man.

It isn’t legal for one man to marry another. It isn’t legal for a woman to marry another woman. It should not be incumbent for a man to pay alimony to another man, or, by extension, a woman to another woman. That betrays the very meaning behind alimony.  The Florida legislature is either going to have to legalize same-sex marriage and change the alimony laws to fit it, or Lawrence needs to be freed from paying alimony to this screwed up human being now named Silverwolf.