Amongst those who are anxiously awaiting the opportunity
for taking advantage of the gender reidentification option.
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 ...
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I'm very happy that I met up with you during your 7 minute allotment for Freeping each week.
Hugs
Red
Frigging meth head.
Maybe I need to work on your campaign.
You're CV would look better as a candidate...
Military Service, Graduate degree v/s rabid redhead..
funniest thing I've read in a long time! Well put
This is absolutely disgusting.
Lets call this new legislation "Micheal's Law"
Whatever genitalia one has should dictate which public restroom one gets to use.
Changing the birth certificate should be a no, no unless you have gone through "gender reassignment" surgery.
I don't care if Joe wants to pretend he's Josephine. As long as he doesn't demand that I acknowledge him as a her.
Next thing you know, these type of people will want to be Director of the FBI.
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This is without question the most asinine thing I have ever heard!
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LOL! That is just the cutest thing.. :)
I appreciate it. However, I do not have military service. My FR name is a tribute to my relatives who served in the USAAC/USAAF.
"That brings up a question: what is post-grad history? Is it more like a bigger bucket or a finer sieve?"
Well, when some of my professors on the graduate level taught, it did require a bucket for the students to contain projectile vomiting.
"I'm very happy that I met up with you during your 7 minute allotment for Freeping each week."
Muchas gracias and hags back to ya.
Well, my lunch break is over; back to pushing paper.
I shall return after work to keep an eye on the election frenzy.
BINGO!!!
"As long as he doesn't demand that I acknowledge him as a her."
Ah, you see, that is part of it too.
Once "she" has a piece of paper saying he is a she, you will be committing hate speech by asserting otherwise.
And the funny thing is, once it's The Law, Americans will obey it. The Law is the true American idol.
Do they really think this will fly?.... are we such a weird country full of freaks, that we allow this to happen? I don't think so.
One thing is for sure... we are not longer asleep... we'll fight them! :)
Are you serious? Required reporting of blood sugar testing?
--So, according to liberals, gender is not genetic, but sexual orientation is.--
You've nailed it on the head.
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