Transgender Woman Fights To Keep Husband's Benefits By Irin Carmon | July 23, 2010 | 8:45pm Latest Copy to clipboard × Copy Link Facebook Reddit Bluesky Email ! A Texas firefighter’s family is suing to have his widow stripped of his death benefits — because the widow is a transsexual and there is no same-sex marriage in Texas. Most Popular In Defense of Hugh Grant Falling Asleep at Wimbledon On Justin Bieber's New Album, Marriage Never Sounded So Terrible! Lena Dunham Says She Saw MAGA's Rise Coming More from JezebelA Ranking of the Wimbledon Couples I Want to Play Doubles WithKen Paxton's Wife Files for Divorce 'on Biblical Grounds'In Defense of Hugh Grant Falling Asleep at Wimbledon Join the discussion... GET JEZEBEL RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX Still here. Still without airbrushing. Still with teeth. Sign Up Leave this field empty if you're human: