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N.Y. Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice
New York Times ^ | 11/07/06 | DAMIEN CAVE

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: deviancy; deviants; fraud; gayagenda; gender; homosexualagenda; lgbt; mentalillness; moralabsolutes; mutilation; nyc; perversion; perverts; sex; sexchange; slimes; sodom; sodomites; transgender
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81 posted on 11/07/2006 8:24:33 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Army Air Corps

I'm very happy that I met up with you during your 7 minute allotment for Freeping each week.

Hugs
Red


82 posted on 11/07/2006 9:53:00 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Army Air Corps

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..


83 posted on 11/07/2006 9:55:15 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: TASMANIANRED

funniest thing I've read in a long time! Well put


84 posted on 11/07/2006 9:56:57 AM PST by dimeadozen
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To: conservative in nyc


Amongst those who are anxiously awaiting the opportunity
for  taking advantage of the gender reidentification option.

85 posted on 11/07/2006 10:02:03 AM PST by Ghengis (Alexander was a wuss!)
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To: conservative in nyc
How long, oh Lord, will you hold back your hand?

This is absolutely disgusting.

86 posted on 11/07/2006 10:13:32 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: conservative in nyc

Lets call this new legislation "Micheal's Law"

87 posted on 11/07/2006 10:16:00 AM PST by kidd
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To: crazedsocialist
Actually, there are several people with XXY, XYY, XXX or XXYY chromosomes.

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.

88 posted on 11/07/2006 10:19:56 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: conservative in nyc

Next thing you know, these type of people will want to be Director of the FBI.


89 posted on 11/07/2006 10:35:05 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet
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To: conservative in nyc; 69ConvertibleFirebird; AFA-Michigan; Alexander Rubin; AliVeritas; ...
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This is without question the most asinine thing I have ever heard!

90 posted on 11/07/2006 11:00:03 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: little jeremiah
When I was four, I wanted to grow up and be an elephant because I liked the Babar books.

************

LOL! That is just the cutest thing.. :)

91 posted on 11/07/2006 11:06:20 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: TASMANIANRED

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.


92 posted on 11/07/2006 11:06:48 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Old Professer

"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.


93 posted on 11/07/2006 11:08:17 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: TASMANIANRED

"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.


94 posted on 11/07/2006 11:09:58 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Let' see... even if we passed a constitution amendment to limit marriage between a MAN and a WOMAN. But then if you can change your gender from a man* to a WOMAN - legally - in New York City...

That would mean... the amendments would USELESS????


95 posted on 11/07/2006 11:17:10 AM PST by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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To: ElPatriota

BINGO!!!


96 posted on 11/07/2006 11:26:59 AM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: MEGoody

"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.


97 posted on 11/07/2006 11:30:08 AM PST by Vicomte13 (The Crown is amused.)
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To: gidget7
:)... in that case... it all means that we have keep fighting and probably

GET MORE ORGANIZED... just so we keep the homosexuals in check!

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! :)

98 posted on 11/07/2006 11:44:07 AM PST by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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To: conservative in nyc

Are you serious? Required reporting of blood sugar testing?


99 posted on 11/07/2006 12:04:04 PM PST by Jaded ("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
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To: Grig

--So, according to liberals, gender is not genetic, but sexual orientation is.--

You've nailed it on the head.


100 posted on 11/07/2006 12:13:20 PM PST by rfp1234 (I've had it up to my keyster with these leaks!!! - - - Ronald Reagan)
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