[1][2] Christie Lee Cavazos was assigned male at birth, in San Antonio, Texas in 1952.
[3] In 1989 Cavazos married Jonathan Mark Littleton in Kentucky, later moving to San Antonio.
On appeal, Chief Justice Phil Hardberger relied on the fact that "Texas statutes do not allow same-sex marriages" and that "male chromosomes do not change with either hormonal treatment or sex reassignment surgery" in handing down his judgment that "Christie Littleton is a male.
"[5] The decision made it legal for a cis woman to marry a trans woman who had undergone sex reassignment surgery and transitioned to female as long as the two partners were assigned opposite sexes at birth.
[6][7] Littleton v. Prange is cited in the fictional 2010 Drop Dead Diva episode "Queen of Mean".