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An Open Letter to Judge Bill Graves: The No-Name-Change Judge
Sep 20
2012
Dear Mr. Graves,
First things first: No, I actually didn’t forget the “honorable” part of your title – I omitted it. I did so because in denying an individual’s right to change his or her name in transgender cases and ONLY transgender cases, you’ve chosen to use the legal system to not only proliferate your blatant homophobia/transphobia, but to give rulings from the bench based on your own antiquated religious views. This is not only an egregious abuse of your power, but as the TLO research department has discovered, is a total dick move. Before I drag this thing off the rails, let’s give our readers some background on you.
As a Republican state rep for 24 years, you called yourself a “Constitutional Conservative”, but we all know what those code words mean now. They mean you legislate from an ancient, terrified place in your brain where you think Hell is real, and it’s hot, and it’s full of gay jazz musicians who smoke the reefer and can’t look at a teenage girl without going on a rapin’ spree. No big shock there. Another non-shock is that while in the state Legislature, you were one of the first to push for an amendment to the OK Constitution banning same-sex marriages, which was approved in 2004. Thanks for that, by the way.
An interesting tidbit I read was that in 2008 you griped about a proposal to keep judges from being members of groups that discriminate based on sexual orientation. From the News.Ok article:
In a letter, [Graves] accused an Oklahoma Bar Association committee that made the proposal of “promoting the agenda of homosexuals and lesbians at the expense of the constitutional freedoms of judges and the People they represent.
Yep. That seems about right so far. In the past year, you’ve denied two men the right to change their name based on transgender status, or prior to gender-reassignment surgery. Look, it kind of hurt my brain to type that last sentence too, but what can you do? It’s the world we live in now, and it’s certainly not your place to moralize from the bench when these people ARE NOT CRIMINALS. Five other judges in OK County were cited in the story as saying they regularly grant name changes in transgender cases, which only makes your holier-than-thou sanctimonious bullshit that much more obvious.
Here’s my bottom line: Religion has no place in a courtroom. The fact that you quoted Genesis (the “book”, not the band…because that might’ve been awesome) in your ruling makes me sick. I don’t care about your religion, and nobody suffering through being in your courtroom should have to either. This is just another example of the fact that in our country we almost need an entire generation of antiquated thinking to just hurry up and get Alzheimer’s and die off. At the very least, we need you all to forget how to form national policy.
Our names are important, sir; it’s a simple way for people to remember who we are. The changing of one’s name is not and will never be a big deal. You even went so far as to commission a study of DNA to see if these peoples’ genders were actually changing? Well, that’s just fucking stupid, sir. Of course DNA doesn’t change – and that’s not even your concern. You were never asked to change someone’s sex on their birth certificate or to call a man a woman, simply to let a man who identifies as a woman to be called “Angela” instead of “James”. JESUS CHRIST, CALL THE PRESIDENT!! You know there’s an American guy who changed his name to Sunshine Megatron, right? And another guy who now goes by the completely legal name of Radical Aided Super N*gger? I just don’t get it, and it worries me that a district judge is this concerned with a person’s name.
You say you denied the requests (one of which is already being appealed) because they were of a fraudulent nature, but what you didn’t define was your use of “fraudulent”. It was not a legal use – it was a religious one, as you followed that sentence in your ruling with this one:
’..And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth …’ The DNA code shows God meant for them to stay male and female.
I’m no 2nd year OU law student who thinks she’s goddamn Ally McBeal or anything, but that is one of the most ridiculous statements I’ve ever read from an elected official, let alone in a ruling by a sitting District judge. You know, I used to work with a guy named Stacy. He wasn’t the manliest man I’d ever met, but that was his “God-given” name. If you want, I can do a citizen’s arrest and get his male-DNA-with-a-girl’s-name-having ass down to your courtroom forthwith!!
In conclusion, you’re wrong, sir. You’re wrong about something that you don’t even get to be right about. Your opinion in these cases is less than moot. As a society we’ve gotten to the point where this kind of request shouldn’t even involve someone of your parochial, anti-everyone-but-old-white-guys agenda. If I want to change my name to “Horse Cock Inyourass” I should just be able to text “Horse Cock Inyourass” to 88845 and click “Yes, I’m an idiot…but it’s MY problem, not yours.” Get the fuck out of people’s lives and do something we actually need, like feeding a homeless guy or taking in a stray dog.
Thank you for your time,
Chad Charlotte!!
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Oklahoma County Courthouse 321 Park Avenue, Rm. 223 OKC, OK 73102 Telephone: (405) 713-1456
Best post ever
Agreed, but someone at TLO needs to send me a new keyboard… or to at least post a disclaimer not to eat lunch while reading TLO…
Great, another thing for the gays to get all butthurt over. Guess they’re used to that, heh.
Dumbass
Yes, let the name calling begin. Get butthurt and then start name calling. Gets old really.
Butthurt-about-butthurt dumbass, i.e., Dumbassception.
Name-calling isn’t constructive, but that’s only fair considering your post was never intended to be constructive, either.
I would ask how it feels to live with a mind even smaller and more tightly closed than the closets in which so many homosexuals feel they must live because your type still exists in society. But I’m sure you aren’t self-aware enough to understand how rewarding living a life without bigotry can be.
Lol!
haw haw haw
And uh…pretty sure it’s the straights who are perturbed (by something that has zero effect on their lives, as usual).
Chad, this may have been the single greatest thing ever written on TLO.
I hope to hell you sent that to Judge Gravedigger.
I’m sure there a some mutual masturbation pictures of him and Sally Kern somewhere in the bowels of Bethany.
+1 Great post and I hope the letter actually went to him!
Man, did TLO just get real?
Well done.
This has to be one of the best POST EVER! Wow! Well put! I even got emothional! I’m pretty sure that this is the kind of guy that makes Jesus do the “GIANT FACE PALM”. After looking at his picture, however, I am trying to picture him with a creepy wig…. I think he may be Sally Kern…
I agree that this Judge must be a total tool.
However, please note that there is no such ‘individual right’ to change one’s name.
There is a right to petiton for a name change, but no ‘right’ to be awarded the requested change.
Having said that – this Judge is a TOOL, and should have granted the request, unless it was based on fraud or deception (which it does not appear to have been) – that is the legal standard.
Thank you for writing this. Sometimes it gets really discouraging living in Oklahoma. Then I read this and feel better for a little bit…
the odds of this guy having a secret gay lover is about at 78.3%
+1
No secret. It’s Chad.
It should come as no shock that old Bill also wrote an amendment “declaiming evolution” while a House Rep and, even less shocking, he was succeeded in his House seat (admirably) by one Sally Kern. Birdbrains of a feather you know…
It’s the water, Sally bought her current residence from Bill and Connie Graves
Thank God. It’s been almost 24 hours since someone on this site bashed a conservative. I was beginning to think that the pink brigade had fallen asleep.
And I hate to point out facts but your statement, “Your opinion in these cases is less than moot”, shows what a retard you are. His opinion in this case does matter.
While I completely agree that this decision shouldn’t be wasting the time of a court of law, your unbridled anger clouds your opinion. And yes, your opinion is moot on this subject. If it was viewed as important you would be making these decisions.
It’d be nice to see your anger placed in the correct direction at the system that forces people to have a judge preside over this situation, instead of the continual bashing of a public figure who is just doing his job.
WAAHH, the blog that I am in no way required to read hurt my feelings again! WAAHH! JESUS! WAAHH! KKK!
WAAHH, the comments that I’m in now way required to read hurt my feelings!! WAAHH! Satan! WAAHH! Boy Scouts!!
I just wasted 3 minutes getting through this. I’m sure you had a point but all I read was blahblah blah blah wah blah blah.
My country, “tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From ev’ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
*slowly wipes a tear away*
I lost track of how many ways this is awesome. When I read this article the The Ok I tried to coalesce my outrage into something very close to this, but just didn’t quite get there. You did.
Weirdos being weirdos
Just another day on TLO
Justice is blind. Boy, I’ll say.
This “judge” is nothing but a joke. Idiot only in Oklahoma this man gets to be a judge…figures.
Lol!! Oklahoma lets crazy people like this be a judge? I’m from Boston, graduated from Harvard law and this guy is an embarrassment. Wow! That’s all.
Outstanding!
“I’m no 2nd year OU law student who thinks she’s goddamn Ally McBeal or anything, but that is one of the most ridiculous statements I’ve ever read from an elected official, let alone in a ruling by a sitting District judge.”
On the mark.
I’d like to hear Kelly Ogle’s 2 cents about guys with fraudulent girl names.
would he approve a name change by someone named marion morrison? stacy keach? jean shepherd?
Preach Brother, love your guts.
Perfect!!!!! Thanks for adding the mailing address, I’m typing a letter, mailing it, then I’m going to find out their fax number and resend the fax a million times over on a loop to this jackwagon.
I’m all for freedom but when you’re too damn old to wipe your ass let alone make judicial decisions, it’s time for retirement or a nursing home.
crap…no FAX number available.
This is the same judge who when he served in the State Legislature said it was not illegal for a man to rape his wife because the Bible says women should submit to their husbands.
so, then he was right?
just kidding
What if James had attempted to change her name to Terry, Leslie, or Sam? Old White Brain = Blown
I know Graves. He’s fucking piece of shit. That’s the nicest thing I can say about him. He’s a complete fucking bastard, a two-faced backstabbing shit-for-brains jackass who became a judge because he couldn’t build a practice on his own. Don’t worry, if I’m going to hell, that cocksucker will be on his knees blowing me from a fire pit.