Mario and Diana, a transgender couple, pose for a picture after getting married in a public ceremony in Mexico City May 17, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

    BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A couple who both changed their sex married on Saturday in Mexico's first transgender wedding, as the traditionally conservative country loses some of its inhibitions.

    Mario del Socorro, formerly Maria, and Diana Guerrero, who used to be Jose, held an austere ceremony for friends and relatives in a community center.

    The couple said they hoped media coverage would pressure Mexico's Congress to pass a proposed law that would let people get sex change operations in public hospitals and then be able to change their names and genders in public records.