chron.com – By Peggy O’Hare and Matthew Woolbright – Houston Chronicle
Attorneys for the widow of a Wharton firefighter killed in the line of duty presented Monday what they called proof that the fallen hero knew of his wife’s gender history.
The evidence they presented – including an e-mail exchange and a witness statement – proves, they said, that the late Wharton fire captain Thomas Araguz III knew that his wife, Nikki Araguz, had undergone gender reassignment surgery after being declared a boy on her birth certificate and after being diagnosed with a genetic disorder that kept her from growing into a fully developed man.