Background
Kantaras was born in Youngstown, Ohio.
Kantaras was born in Youngstown, Ohio.
The case had implications for the legal status of transsexual marriages and the legal definitions of "man" and "woman."
In the late 1980s, Kantaras underwent hormone treatments and two surgeries at the Rosenberg Clinic in Texas to remove breasts, ovaries, and the uterus, but retained external female genitalia. Kantaras married Linda Forsythe in a civil ceremony on July 18, 1989. Kantaras adopted Forsythe"s child from a prior relationship, and Forsythe gave birth to a second child through artificial insemination in 1992.
Kantaras met another woman and filed for divorce in 1998, requesting primary custody of the children.
Review was denied by the Florida Supreme Court. The couple settled the case with joint custody in 2005.