Trucker who changed sexes can't change license

Pittsburgh Post Gazette ^ | Friday, November 22, 2002 | Associated Press

[pittsburgh gop guy]

Trucker who changed sexes can't change license

Friday, November 22, 2002

Associated Press

BEDFORD, Pa. -- Ellen can go by Daniel if he wants, but changing the sex listed on a birth certificate is outside the jurisdiction of the Common Pleas Court, a judge ruled.

Truck driver Daniel Gryphon MacNeal, formerly Ellen Bernadine Thompson, underwent a sex change last year and wanted to change his birth certificate -- and consequently his driver's license -- to reflect the change.

"Every time I get stopped for safety checks or whatever, if it's a super cop, they pick up on the fact that my license says I'm a female and I look like a male," said MacNeal, 35, who has a beard and mustache because of the hormone therapy he began 12 years ago.

Bedford County Judge Thomas Ling, however, ruled yesterday that he does not have the authority to change the sex listed on MacNeal's birth certificate.

"Gender is based on the number of matched genes and chromosomes. Sex organs are secondary," Ling said. "I would have to be presented with a blood test showing the gender."

MacNeal and his attorney, Frederick Gieg, vowed to go to the Legislature to seek a law that would allow judges to make such a change.

MacNeal said he hopes to get married someday, but cannot if his birth certificate says he is a woman. He said he was married for 10 years, but has been divorced since 2000 and has no children.

According to the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights in Philadelphia, MacNeal is seeking the change in the wrong venue.

"The court doesn't have the power to change the gender, but it can be done through the Pennsylvania Department of Vital Statistics," said Tiffany Palmer, legal director at the center. "Right now, it's addressed administratively rather than by law."

[pittsburgh gop guy]

I have no idea of what to make of this....

[thegreatbeast]

I made quick work of this. When I saw him/her complain of *Super-cops* I stopped reading and wasting my time.

[Age of Reason]

These so called sex change freaks are a fraud.

If your chromosomes are XY, you're a guy.

If your chromosomes are XX, you're a girl.

End of story.

[umgud]

My uncle used to love me, but she died.........

[lawdude]

If your chromosomes are XY, you're a guy.

If your chromosomes are XX, you're a girl.

End of story.

If you are YY, your name is Daschle!

[coloradan]

What about the XXY and XYYs? They have rights too!!!

[Dataman]

[TopQuark]

He said he was married for 10 years, but has been divorced since 2000 and has no children. Yet, (s)he began a hormon therapy 12 years ago. This creature is presently 35 yearsd old.

Does this not mean she was marreid to a guy and taking male hormons to become a male at the same time?

[TopQuark]

Now, that's what we should print and scatter from airplanes all over Saudi Arabia!

[RonF]

It seems that transsexuals think that surgery and hormones not only change their social sexual roles and appearance, they also change their gender. Sorry. Biology rules. I have no objection to anyone taking on any role they want socially, but when it comes to legal situations, you are what you were born as. The judge has hit it squarely on the nose when he differentiates secondary sexual characteristics from the primary gender inscribed in your DNA.

[RonF]

XXY's generally are female in appearance and listed as such at birth. Are XYY's viable?

[Visioneer]

Phenotypically (physical appearance)

Genotypically (genetically)

[Visioneer]

transsexuals can change their phenotype but their genotype will always be what they were born as....

[Age of Reason]

Mona Gorilla?

[TSgt]

I can only imagine what this trucker's C.B. handle is…

"How about ya big momma er I mean daddy! Ya gotcher ears on?"

[ricpic]

Can this former she now function as a he in the...er...act? Has surgery advanced to the point where he can be given a functioning...er...add on?

[Old Professer]

Married for 10 years, divorced in 2002 and began hormone therapy 12 years ago; must have been some funny marriage.