Posted on 03/24/2011 7:57:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A group of transgender residents filed a lawsuit against New York City over what they say are burdensome requirements for them to change the gender on their birth certificates.
The city's birth certificate requirements amount to discrimination for transgender residents, said Noah Lewis, an attorney representing the residents in the case.
New York's Health Department requires residents to show proof of surgical procedures in order to change the gender status on a birth certificate. But the lawsuit, filed by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund in state Supreme Court on behalf of three residents, said many transgender people cannot afford the surgical procedures. Instead, a note from a doctor verifying someone's transgender status should be sufficient, it said.
The requirements mean many transgender people cannot get up-to-date or usable identification, Lewis said. "This subjects them to harassment and discrimination. They can be laughed at or turned away doing everyday transactions like going to the DMV (the Department of Motor Vehicles) or applying for jobs," he said.
One of those suing the city, Joan Prinzivalli, said she would like to get the surgery the city requires to prove she is female but she is unable to for health reasons. "This policy is unfair to me and to other transgender people who just want IDs that match who we are," she said.....
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I truly think that this is a mental illness.
Chopping a penis off does not make a he a she!
He will never be a she! Chopping off a penis will not change the fact that he is still a he!
That is one hideous-looking “Woman”.
You were born a man or a woman, you were born a man or a woman, and that doesn’t need to be changed. It’s an official document, and now is not the time to lie about that. But hey, I guess if people can say a gender other than birth, couldn’t Obama say that his Birth Certificate be rewritten, if we haven’t seen it already, so that he could be born in Hawaii instead of wherever it was he was really born (Kenya? Indonesia?)
Is there any evidence that there could be a biological basis for these individuals who say that they born in the wrong body?
I hope that this MAN gets HIS butt kicked when HE goes into the Ladies’room.HE does not belong there.
“Health Reasons”? As in mental health reasons?
I have a question for my fellow females:
Doesn’t it tick you off when these men call themselves women? It makes me madder than a you-know-what.
I have a question for my fellow females:
Doesn’t it tick you off when these men call themselves women? It makes me madder than a you-know-what.
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