Man Who Posed as Woman Is Jailed

A man who posed as a woman during a 3 1/2-year marriage was ordered Tuesday to serve nine months in jail by a judge skeptical about whether the husband was really duped.

“It is difficult for the court to believe the victim did not notice what he really was,” Judge Rodney Page said.

Felix Urioste, 34, married Bruce Jensen in 1991 in Lyman, Wyo., claiming to be a woman named Leasa who was pregnant with twins. Urioste later told Jensen the twins were stillborn.

Prosecutors have described Jensen, a 39-year-old lab technician, as naive and sincere and said he married Urioste because he thought he might be the twins’ father. He has since asked for an annulment.

Urioste had had his testicles removed when preparing for a sex change operation, and authorities have said the marriage was essentially celibate. Urioste was arrested as a man in June after running up $40,000 to $50,000 in bills on credit cards.