Littleton v. Prange, 9 S.W.3d 223 (San Antonio 1999)
This case involves the most basic of questions. When is a man a man, and when is a woman a woman?
Yes, the rest of the opinion follows in the same colloquial fashion.
Christie is a transsexual. She was born in San Antonio in 1952, a physically healthy male, and named after her father, Lee Cavazos. At birth, she was named Lee Cavazos, Jr. (Throughout this opinion Christie will be referred to as "She." This is for grammatical simplicity's sake, and out of respect for the litigant, who wishes to be called "Christie," and referred to as "she." It has no legal implications.)
At birth, Christie had the normal male genitalia: penis, scrotum and testicles. Problems with her sexual identity developed early though. Christie testified that she considered herself female from the time she was three or four years old, the contrary physical evidence notwithstanding. Her distressed parents took her to a physician, who prescribed male hormones. These were taken, but were ineffective. Christie sought successfully to be excused from sports and physical education because of her embarrassment over changing clothes in front of the other boys.
By the time she was 17 years old, Christie was searching for a physician who would perform sex reassignment surgery. At 23, she enrolled [**3] in a program at the University of Texas Health Science Center that would lead to a sex reassignment operation.
