[I_Love_My_Husband]

I don't understand how the government allows these people to get drivers licenses to say that they're now women, or put them in women's jail, or let them into the womens bathroom, or allow them to change their sex on their birth certificates. All this happens, btw.

[Dakmar]

Would I still be white if I dyed myself dark brown?

[supercat]

I don't understand how the government allows these people to get drivers licenses to say that they're now women, or put them in women's jail, or let them into the womens bathroom, or allow them to change their sex on their birth certificates. All this happens, btw.

Although they are rare, there are cases where newborns have genitalia which are not well-formed as either male or female, and there have been cases where a doctor has marked as a "girl" an infant who in fact was not only genetically XY but in fact had testes. While I do not doubt that 99.44% of "sex change" operations are nothing more than genital mutilations which serve no useful purpose, there have been and no doubt will be some cases which are not so clear-cut (though I would expect genetic testing and sonography would make these less likely).

How would you propose the state should deal with this?

Additionally, if a court in any state recognizes that a person has changed sex, absent federal legislation to the contrary, wouldn't all states be bound to recognize same?