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.)
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LOL!!
They'll only have the problem of how to get tax revenues, after the sane folks move out of the state.
The liberals do have a certain, sick, logic, in the way they go about getting things to go their way.
And psychiatrists collect the rent, or so said my psych prof. in college. It's partially the professions fault though, especially when you consider the removal of homosexuality from the diagnosis manuals and the promotion of "gender dysphoria" as a legitimate illness rather than the perversion that it is. The psychiatric field has really done a lot to promote this, to their shame.
CC
This is proof that if you give an inch, they will take a mile.
So, according to liberals, gender is not genetic, but sexual orientation is.
Not a big deal.
If they have already lived at least two years as the opposite gender. Changing what is written on there birth certificate won't do much. Except make it easier for those who can blend to do so.
As a tree-American, I resent the insinuation that Al Gore is of our species.
Respectfully,
"The Larch"
Oh Yuck, these people are so sick
Actually, there are several people with XXY, XYY, XXX or XXYY chromosomes. There are also several conditions where sex can develop differently from what one could expect from XY children.
That brings up a question: what is post-grad history? Is it more like a bigger bucket or a finer sieve?
If you need any further proof that the inmates have taken over the asylum . . . .
Do we have to keep New York as a state? Can't we force them out to join Canada?
Exactly, this is a 'Backdoor' to homosexual marriage.
My user name says it all!
Great. I also want to pick my own race, and then I'll finally be able to beat the affirmative action game.
Were not slouching towards Gomorrah anymore. We are in the freaking express lane.
Could college football programs do this so that they don't violate title IX quota codes?
Since the goal is to make gender "transitional" then for purposes of title IX the genders of participants could be adjusted.
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