Mom's Custody Argument: Dad Is FTM

By Associated Press
Contributed by Jodie Miller


SANTA ANA, California (AP)

A woman wants sole custody of her 3-year-old daughter on the grounds that the girl's father is actually a woman.

Kristie Vecchione planned to ask an Orange County Family Court judge on Friday to order a sex-chromosome test for her estranged husband Joshua. Joshua, 40, grew up as Janine and became a man through a series of sex-change operations 20 years ago -- long before getting married.

Ms. Vecchione, 27, contends the marriage is null because the state does not recognize same-sex marriages. She wants sole custody of the daughter, who was conceived by artificial insemination, using sperm from Joshua's brother. Joshua, who has long lived comfortably as a man and is engaged to his girlfriend, said it felt odd to have his gender called into question after all these years.


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