Posted on 06/26/2013 1:04:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When going through the grueling process of getting her driver’s license renewed, Grimes never noticed that there was an “X” marked in the male gender box on her birth certificate. So, officially, Grimes has been classified as a man and was reportedly informed by a state worker at the Vital Records department that in order to rectify the mistake she would have to subject herself to a pap smear, according to Fox 5 News. Grimes told Fox 5 News that she had reviewed her birth certificate in the past but never noticed the gender boxes. “You only look at the name, the date, and the year,” Grimes said. “I’ve never seen that.”
Reportedly, the Clayton County, Ga., mother of a young boy found out about her birth certificate faux pas when she went to retrieve it at the state Vital Records department. Grimes was taken aback when a state worker told her that she would have to undergo a pap smear, then submit a letter written by her primary care physician to Vital Records to prove her womanhood; this process, she was told, would verify her gender issue–at least on paper.
Grimes said that undergoing a pap smear in order to determine whether she is in fact a woman was a humiliating and degrading request. “She said I needed to go have a PAP exam, have a doctor write a note verifying you’re a woman, and bring it back-– notarized,” Grimes said angrily. Grimes says she left the government agency feeling less than human and very disturbed.
When FOX 5′s Kaitlyn Pratt took Grimes’ concerns to Vital Records Services, the unidentified Vital Records director told Pratt that what took place is not protocol, and she was delving further into the case. She also promised to make things right. The matter was finally settled when department officials at the records office looked at Grimes’ son’s birth certificate and saw her listed as his mother. The gender box mishap was then corrected, so Grimes can now enjoy her upcoming birthday as an official woman in the eyes of the feds.
I think it would be fair and rational to have the clerk at the Vital Records department have to have her heart removed from her chest to prove that she has one.
She’s fortunate that she doesn’t live here.
They’d expect her to correct her crotch rather than admit the paperwork could be wrong.
Hahaha!!!!
There was a King of the Hill episode about this very thing. Life truly imitates art.
All she had to do was to say she “identifies” as a woman... seems to work for pretty much everything else these days.
Why didn’t she just post a forgery to the internet and use that instead?
The woman at the office was lucky this was not a male marked wrong.
If it had been me I would have shown her on the spot, with no doubts.
You don't "need" one, so don't ask for one.
Just wait for the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (PPACA), aka Obamacare, when errors like this become FEDERALIZED! Right now we see what problem correction is like when it is just a state matter, now the same bureaucratic infrastructure that creates insane IRS correction letters will inform health care users and providers of what the rules of the day are by Federal Government fiat.
Wonderful customer service is not likely.
MeganC wrote:
I think it would be fair and rational to have the clerk at the Vital Records department have to have her heart removed from her chest to prove that she has one.
See Megan, I was thinking more along the lines of the clerk needing to prove her head isn’t inserted in her rectal cavity.
Cleavon Little said it best: “’scuse me while I whip this out...”
I can honestly see how this happened.
I didn’t see my birth certificate until I was 17 and applying for my first driver’s license.
Shock of my life - the name my mother had taught me was NOT my legal name. I called her on it and she said that she ‘liked the other spelling better and the nurse wouldn’t let her use it, so I just came close to what I really wanted.’
So ALL of my shot records (became a MAJOR issue when I moved to Germany) and ALL of my school records (became a MAJOR issue when I applied for college) were different than my birth certificate.
To make matters worse, she put down a completely different spelling on my social security card. (I honestly think that it was a matter of bad handwriting on that one.)
I don’t know how the IRS didn’t come down on my entire family for that because I know that she put down her preferred spelling of my name on the tax forms and that it didn’t match either my birth certificate or my social security card.
When I graduated I had to go with my birth certificate and UN-screw three separate, serious documents to put my life together.
To make matters even more insane, my diploma didn’t even have the correct LAST name because she ‘liked’ my step-father better than my birth dad and just put his last name as mine from jr high through high school. Officially, I never went to school after I was eight years old - then I graduated. (Should’ve seen me in the counselor’s office trying to explain that mess the week after graduation.)
No. There never was an official adoption. She just changed it when we moved.
I didn’t even find out that the last name that I’d been going by for almost a decade really wasn’t my last name until I was almost out of high school.
“No... Mom... You can’t just put down whatever you feel like... these are legal documents... It doesn’t matter what you WANT it to be...”
I still don’t know who the hell I am. Sheesh.
But later you found out your Mom did that so you would learn a very valuable lesson...
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