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Looks like gobeldygook to me. A man is a man and a women is a women makes a whole lot more sense. So what if some men feel like women. And so what if they portray how they feel to the outside world one way or another. They are still men and women.

Of course it does. The reason that the state regulates marriage is so that the state is not burdened with abandoned children and so that inheritance can be passed on in an orderly way (with the state getting it's cut).

Yep. the responsiblities are the burden of the regulations and the perks are what the state does to sweeten the pot.

the state need only regulate people who will have children to be possibly abandoned or left an inheritance. The difficulties the state has in knowing which couples will be fertile or infertile force the state to make a generality that is not absolutely fair to all. Infertile couples will be treated differently than fertile ones. Life sucks.

Except in rare instances they don't have children with each other. Therefore the state only needs to regulate the relationships that the parents have (as in mommy 1 and her child's birth father) and not the relationships that mommy one has with her new lover or her own mother or her grandmother or her roommate...

now that people are starting to have children with people of the same gender through in vitro the state should get with the times.

As I said above the state does not treat fertile and infertile couples the same or fairly. That is the way of it. I don't see action groups of infertile couples lobbying for their rights.