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Corbett v Corbett

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699:, heard from a wide range of doctors, with each side calling three leading medical experts to give evidence. The judge noted that "there was a very large measure of agreement between on the present state of scientific knowledge on all relevant topics, although they differed in the inferences and conclusions which they drew from the application of this knowledge to the facts of the present case." 848:. Academic and LGBTQI+ advocate Zoë Playdon suggests that the decision in the Forbes case shows "there is apparently no reason why the benefits its precedent provides – a corrected birth certificate and equal civil status – should not be enjoyed by everyone else in the UK who like him has been born with the condition of transsexualism." The Forbes case is the subject of Playdon's 2021 book 684:(which would have allowed divorce after a period of marital separation), other grounds had to be relied upon. Corbett argued that the marriage was null and void on the basis that Ashley had at the time of the ceremony been a person of the male sex; or alternatively that the marriage had never been consummated sexually. 777:
Having regard to the essentially heterosexual character of the relationship which is called marriage, the criteria must, in my judgment, be biological, for even the most extreme degree of transsexualism in a male or the most severe hormonal imbalance which can exist in a person with male chromosomes,
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It is common ground between all the medical witnesses that the biological sexual constitution of an individual is fixed at birth (at the latest), and cannot be changed, either by the natural development of organs of the opposite sex, or by medical or surgical means. The respondent's operation,
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After hearing the medical evidence, the judge held that Ashley was not a woman for the purposes of marriage but a biological male, and had been so since birth. On that basis, as "marriage is and always has been recognised as the union of man and woman", the marriage was held to be
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The court was careful to limit the scope of the judgment to the determination of legal sex for the purpose of marriage. It was not, the judge said, his purpose to determine 'legal sex' for other purposes; indeed Ashley had already been accepted as a woman for the purposes of her
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Corbett and Ashley had met in 1960 and married in September 1963, the husband doing so with full knowledge of the wife's history and of the surgery. But within 14 days the relationship had broken down. Ashley's lawyers wrote to Corbett in 1966 demanding
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The ruling in this case was used as the basis to define the legal sex of transsexual and transgender people for many purposes until the introduction of the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999, in an amendment to the
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therefore, cannot affect her true sex. The only cases where the term 'change of sex' is appropriate are those in which a mistake as to sex is made at birth and subsequently revealed by further medical investigation.
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The judge noted that the medical criteria did not necessarily decide the legal basis of sex determination, but that they were "of course, relevant". John Randell, the man who set up the first transsexual/
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Although the judgment was restricted to a consideration of legal sex specifically within marriage, its reasoning was later applied more widely within England and Wales.
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The court held that, for the purposes of marriage, sex was to be legally defined by three factors present at birth that the judge referred to as 'biological' – namely
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The judge held that for the purposes of marriage, sex was to be legally defined by only the first three factors listed above, which he called '
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All of the medical experts agreed that there were at least four medical criteria to be used in assessing the sex of an individual, namely:
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male gonads and male genitalia cannot reproduce a person who is naturally capable of performing the essential role of a woman in marriage.
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Finley, Henry (1989). "Transsexuals, Sex Change Operations and the Chromosome Test: Corbett v. Corbett Not Followed".
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As a result of the decision in this case, alternative ways to achieve amendment of birth records for transsexual and
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Text of the decision in the case of W v W (October 2000), where the judge decided against annulment of a marriage
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the requirement for medical supervision as a condition for legal recognition of a change of sex was removed.
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in 1935 and had been raised as a boy, but by 1956 was working as what at that time was known as a '
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for doing so being that the marriage had been invalid, as Ashley was of the male sex.
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The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v. Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex
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in 1968. However, that case was not available at the time for consideration as a
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Probert, Rebecca (2005). "How would Corbett v Corbett be decided today?".
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people ceased in England and Wales until the introduction of the
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Gilmore, Stephen; Herring, Jonathan; Probert, Rebecca (2011).
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divorce case heard between November and December 1969 by the
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Arthur Cameron Corbett v. April Corbett (Otherwise Ashley)
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Full text of the judgment, archived by the Wayback Machine
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Index

High Court of Justice
Roger Ormrod
Family law
Family
Types of marriages
Cohabitation
Concubinage
Common-law marriage
Civil union
Domestic partnership
Validity of marriages
Marriage licence
Marriage certificate
Prenuptial agreement
Matrimonial regime
Void
Voidable marriages
Annulment
Marriageable age
Sham marriage
Amatonormativity
Dissolution of marriages
Divorce
Adultery
Grounds for divorce
No-fault divorce
Matrimonial Causes Act
Legal separation
Alimony
Parenting plan

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