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Such individuals are then free to enter or re-enter civil partnerships or marriages in accordance with their newly recognized gender identity. In addition, some legal jurisdictions acknowledge a authorized and official change of gender, which would enable a transgender male or feminine to be legally married in accordance with an adopted gender identity. The latest jurisdictions to legalize identical-intercourse marriage are Greece and Aruba and Curaçao within the Netherlands. Within the United States earlier than the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, couples in same-sex marriages could solely get hold of a divorce in jurisdictions that acknowledged identical-intercourse marriages, with some exceptions. Adoption rights will not be essentially covered, though most states with identical-sex marriage enable those couples to jointly adopt as different married couples can. Same-intercourse marriage can present those in committed identical-intercourse relationships with related authorities services and make financial calls for on them comparable to that required of these in reverse-sex marriages, and likewise provides them authorized protections comparable to inheritance and hospital visitation rights. Opponents of similar-sex marriage who need marriage to be restricted to pairings of a man and a lady, such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Catholic Church, and the Southern Baptist Convention, use the term traditional marriage to mean reverse-sex marriage.