Being in a situation similar to yours, though without the age difference, this does matter for me, emotionally as well as, perhaps at some point, practically. We got this a few years ago, where I lived then and more recently where I live now, but a lot of Americans don't have it yet. And it did mean feeling less weird about using something that a lot of other bi and gay people didn't have access to. (There's no significant age gap between me and cattitude, but women do tend to live longer than men, statistically.)
However, being bi and poly means I'm also aware is that the law still won't recognize more than one of my serious relationships. It does matter to me emotionally that neither Massachusetts nor Washington is going to say "you can't marry adrian_turtle, you're both women," but on a practical level it's also still true that neither state would let us get married.
As you know, I'm a trans woman married to a cis man.
Before the changes in law almost a decade back now, I possessed no rights to marry anyone (other than, ironically, a trans man and even then for the purpose, we'd have had to swop gender roles in any marriage service to make it legal!).
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However, being bi and poly means I'm also aware is that the law still won't recognize more than one of my serious relationships. It does matter to me emotionally that neither Massachusetts nor Washington is going to say "you can't marry adrian_turtle, you're both women," but on a practical level it's also still true that neither state would let us get married.
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Before the changes in law almost a decade back now, I possessed no rights to marry anyone (other than, ironically, a trans man and even then for the purpose, we'd have had to swop gender roles in any marriage service to make it legal!).
And as you say, congratulations to all! :o)
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