Thanks for the link. Apparently the state does not recognize her as a woman after-all:
The trick here is that one of the brides is legally not a woman.
“Yes, in my passport it says ‘male’,” Irina has told RT.
Irina speaks of herself as a transsexual rather than transgender.
Well now this make sense in another sense
It was considered a male female marriage even though they classified it as transgender like I thought.
Guess the they could still have babies through intercourse so biologically it could be seen as a straight marriage (man and woman) part wasn't completely incorrect as the Russian Authorities allowed that marriage in their books because they didn't include transgender changes into the rulebook.
It looks like some of the gay rights activists see it as a straight marriage as well.
However, some LGBT activists do not agree that Irina and Alyona should be considered a gay couple.
“This is in no way a same-sex marriage. This is a question of transgender, not homosexuality,” prominent gay rights activist Nikolay Alekseev told the Russian News Service. “This is an old story. There have been such cases before. A certain gender is written in a passport, but how they dress for the wedding is their business.”
The traps confuse me took a full page to get all the facts straightened out.
