Posted on 11/06/2006 9:24:11 PM PST by conservative in nyc
Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.
Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.
Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years, but there would be no explicit medical requirements.
“Surgery versus nonsurgery can be arbitrary,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner.
Dr. Frieden continued: “Somebody with a beard may have had breast-implant surgery. It’s the permanence of the transition that matters most.”
If approved, the new rule would put New York at the forefront of efforts to redefine gender. A handful of states do not require surgery for such birth certificate changes, but in some of those cases patients are still not allowed to make the change without showing a physiological shift to the opposite gender.--Snip--
--Snip--The change would lead to many intriguing questions: For example, would a man who becomes a woman be able to marry another man? (Probably.) Would an adoption agency be able to uncover the original sex of a proposed parent? (Not without a court order.) Would a woman who becomes a man be able to fight in combat, or play in the National Football League? (These areas have yet to be explored.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Homosexual agenda.
This is disgusting... just think what they'll teach the kids next.
I fear God must punish us again... we haven't learned.
There are not enough words to adequately articulate my disgust.
Most evil.
I heard Rush talking about it today and couldn't believe it.
Clarification so noted.
Glad to have tickled you.
Why stop there? Let people pick their own phylum, genus and species too.
"I wanna be an 'it'."
I wanna be a bird and fly away from this planet.
Things are getting frightening - chaos, bloodshed in our major cities, a war that we are waging to free a people who aren't always appreciative, rejection of all things spiritual, hatred of all things American, famine and suffering on a world-wide scale that could be avoided and so much else.
Many good people want to help make the world safe and a good place but others enjoy the chaos.
WHY?
I'm thinking these people are already democrats.....
I remember the conversation - I really thought I could grow up and be an elephant.
Funny thing, I DID grow up and become an elephant!
(Not really, but I need to lose about 35#...)
Well, I am home and I have had my evening meal. Time to write and FReep!
I just drove by the Jim Henson Studios Sunday when I went to the grocery. And I admired the huge green Kermit at the entrance.
Maybe.
Glad you are home.
Even at work and just keeping tabs peripherally, this election has me ready to hurl..
Nerves.
Well, I am preparing myself in advance for the Dems to begin lawsuits when they do not gain control of either chamber of Congress.
I have kept my spirits high by reading PJ-Comix's DUmmie FUnnies.
I need to lose weight too(only about 15# but I've already started eating better)
They might go postal and take to the streets like they did in Mexico.
Or wear Guy Fawkes masks and begin chanting "We wanna print-out!"
Or they may simply pop some 'shrooms and increase their meds.
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