When Jazmin Elizondo Arias was born in 1991, someone goofed and noted on her birth certificate that she was male.As the years passed and Elizondo grew up, the mix-up never caused any problems. So she never bothered to try to correct the record officially, something that others in her situation found could turn into a slog through Costa Rica’s bureaucracy with no guarantee of success.Recently Elizondo and her partner, Laura Florez-Estrada Pimentel, exploited that simple clerical error from nearly a quarter-century ago to become Costa Rica’s first legally married gay couple – at least briefly – and high-profile protagonists in the Central American nation’s debate over same-sex unions.

Source: How A Clerical Error Led to Costa Rica’s First Legal Gay Marriage – NBC News