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Glad to see that the poor guy got his job back but I wonder if there's any truth to his statement that he didn't know she was a T-Girl before marriage?
Full article can be found here:
http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/OddNews...etect=&abc=abc
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's top court ordered the national police to rehire an officer kicked off the force in 1996 for failing to ask permission before marrying an alleged transsexual.
The decision was announced in a communique posted Wednesday on the Constitutional Tribunal's website.
The statement said the national police must rehire former officer Jose Antonio Alvarez because under Peru's constitution, people cannot be singled out "based on their sexual choice and preferences."
The police charged that Alvarez had shown a "lack of obedience" and had harmed the institution's honour by marrying the alleged transsexual, whose identity was not revealed in the court decision.
The tribunal said its ruling "did not support in any way" members of the national police practicing "heterosexual or homosexual" conduct inside police facilities.
"What is judged unconstitutional is that, interfering in a sphere of human freedom, a sexual choice and preference of a person is considered illegitimate and from there susceptible to sanction," the court ruled.
Alvarez, who argued that he did not know his bride had been a man when he married her, could not be reached for comment.
His attorney, David Dominguez, told Channel 2 news that it was Alvarez's estranged, pregnant girlfriend who told police about his bride's past.
The marriage was later annulled and Alvarez got back together with his girlfriend. They had a second baby together, Channel 2 reported.
The decision was announced in a communique posted Wednesday on the Constitutional Tribunal's website.
The statement said the national police must rehire former officer Jose Antonio Alvarez because under Peru's constitution, people cannot be singled out "based on their sexual choice and preferences."
The police charged that Alvarez had shown a "lack of obedience" and had harmed the institution's honour by marrying the alleged transsexual, whose identity was not revealed in the court decision.
The tribunal said its ruling "did not support in any way" members of the national police practicing "heterosexual or homosexual" conduct inside police facilities.
"What is judged unconstitutional is that, interfering in a sphere of human freedom, a sexual choice and preference of a person is considered illegitimate and from there susceptible to sanction," the court ruled.
Alvarez, who argued that he did not know his bride had been a man when he married her, could not be reached for comment.
His attorney, David Dominguez, told Channel 2 news that it was Alvarez's estranged, pregnant girlfriend who told police about his bride's past.
The marriage was later annulled and Alvarez got back together with his girlfriend. They had a second baby together, Channel 2 reported.
http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/OddNews...etect=&abc=abc
