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First, thank you very much for doing this show! It is extremely relevant to my life, and I appreciate your discussion.

I am a late twenties woman who is engaged to an amazing trans man. I have been looking for legal advice regarding Oregon's new domestic partnership law. As I understand it, this law is only for same sex couples. My partner lives his life as a male, but all of his official documents still list his gender as female. I believe this means that we would need to get domestically partnered; however at some point he is hoping to legally change his gender to male and I am not sure how this would effect the legality of our partnership. What if there are children involved by that time? Would we need to get married at that point?

Our lives are very comfortable in all other arenas - but when trans folk have to approach legal affairs, I feel like things get slightly confusing. Does anybody have any advice or insight that could help us? Thank you very much!

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I am a 1999 graduate of Philomath High School, and I used the clemens scholarship to complete my bachelors of science from Oregon State University. It was at the end of my junior year at OSU that the foundation decided to stop funding students to attend OSU, and I received a letter informing me that if I transfered to a different school I would continue to receive money, but would be cut off if I completed my degree at OSU. Being the only university in the state that offers degrees in Botany, I explained my reasons for not transferring. The funny thing is, the foundation made a lot of publicity noise about cutting that funding, but in the end they sent me a check for my last year without any formal reply. I'm extremely grateful for the education the clemens foundation helped me receive, but I'm appalled how the current board is using the money to push their agenda instead of using the money for its original purpose - to fund all students extended education. I think Rex and Ethel would be ashamed.

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