Posted on 12/08/2014 5:00:35 PM PST by Morgana
The New York City Council Monday approved a measure that eliminates the surgery requirement for transgender people seeking to change the sex designation on their birth certificates. The ordinance was proposed in October by City Council Member Corey Johnson, a Democrat.
The policy will require a licensed health care provider to state under oath that "based on contemporary expert standards," according to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) press release, "an individual’s true sex is not accurately recorded on their current birth certificate." Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign the measure into law, and the Board of Health is expected to adopt regulations Tuesday.
Laws vary from state to state regarding the requirements needed to change one's sex designation on a birth certificate. Most states will amend them with proof of sex-reassignment surgery, but a few states -- including Idaho, Ohio and Tennessee -- will not. Other states require the applicant receive some form of gender-reassignment treatment, such as hormone therapy.
But this bill, Int. 491 (2014), which Johnson told the New York Daily News in October was "the most progressive in the country," eliminates surgery as a requirement. "Gender won't be about your physicality," he said. "It won't be about your body. It's about how you identify."
Gender dysphoria is the clinical term for the condition in which a person feels his or her emotional and psychological identity as a male or female, and the gender roles that come with it, is opposite from the biological sex assigned at birth.
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More fraudulent government documents. They seem to be everywhere these days.
So I cut a hole in my Birth Certificate, or tape an extra piece of paper on it????
The sick product of sick minds in a sick city trying to bend over backwards to enable great sickness in our terribly sick times.
Sick, sick, sick, sick.
Crazy people everywhere rejoice! The government is going to humor you!
pure insanity
at this point ... so what is the purpose of even retaining or storing one’s sex or perceived sex? just a wasted data field
Now let's go shopping!
This could be a big boom for the lesbians, They could have their cake and eat it too...
Girls sports scholarship - here I come!!!!
I predict cluster headaches for genealogists of the future.
That, and family trees that are shaped like fairground pretzels.
Hmm..
Most people don’t need to use surgery to change any document (/Journalists don’t know English)
i guess i’m either male or transgendered lesbian, now according to libtard logic.
Insanity.
And all those lucrative government contracts that female-owned businesses get.
How about changing species? I think that deep inside I have always been a Vulcan with round ears and a logic deficiency. Who’s to say I’m not?
hmmm, ok, what could go wrong?
I’m glad my parents did not live to see this.
Ah, the ultimate test for girliness :-)
You can have no idea what it is like being a gender other than that you were born.
What’s it really like being a female? I can imagine it, I can listen to what women say, but really I can never really know.
How can a guy say with surety he’s a female? Our lives are made up of millions of unique and different experiences.
“...will require a licensed health care provider to state under oath that “based on contemporary expert standards,”....”
I wonder if “based upon contemporary expert standards” that the statement by the licensed health care provider (could be a social worker, nurse, nurses aid, doctor, chiropractor, etc.) “none of the above ....damned if I can figure it out” would be acceptable?
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