A transgender widow is suing for workers' compensation benefits she was denied after her firefighter husband was killed in the line of duty. Thirty-six-year-old Nikki Araguz, formerly known as Justin Graham Purdue, filed suit last week against the City of Wharton, Texas.
The couple's marriage was voided last year in a separate suit brought on by his parents, who sought a judgement to allow his two children from a previous marriage to share their father's benefits.
Couple: Nikki Araguz, right, the transgender widow of Wharton firefighter Thomas Araguz, left, pictured at their 2008 wedding
District Judge Randy Clapp presided over the lawsuit brought by Thomas Araguz III's parents.
Mrs Araguz lost her appeal to the ruling last month.
But in an interview with ABC News, she resolved to keep fighting on behalf of the transgender community.
'As difficult as this has been for me in my grief, I cannot in good conscience allow someone else to go through this again,' she said.
Mrs Araguz legally changed her name to Nikki Paige Purdue from Justin Graham Purdue in 1996, and married Mr Araguz in 2008. She underwent a sex-change operation later that year, in October.
Here is a picuture of the freak who cut off his penis and now dresses like a woman. The freak actually thinks it is a woman. Sicko shit.
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Someone should have spared us all and cut the other head off.