Is marriage an outdated institution?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is marriage an outdated institution?". Your opponent's style: Norm Macdonald

Teens can be trans, they aren’t crazy.

That's not the argument here, and conflating gender identity with the marriage debate is a distraction. Whether teens can be trans is irrelevant to whether marriage is outdated. You're pivoting away from the actual question, which tells me you don't have a strong position on it yet. Marriage isn't outdated because it solves problems that haven't disappeared: legal protection, inheritance rights, tax benefits, custody frameworks. These exist regardless of who marries whom. The real question is whether these institutional benefits matter anymore, not whether people's identities are valid. So let's reset. Why specifically is marriage obsolete in 2026?