This is the third year that Boysko has introduced this bill. Lawmakers also recently passed Boysko's bill requiring the Department of Education to develop policies concerning the treatment of transgender students in public elementary and secondary schools.
Senate Bill 657 now goes to the governor’s desk for approval.
A virginia birth certificate will be totally useless as a form of identification once this bill passes. It will have the same truth content as Obama’s certificate of live birth (that is, none)
How can you use a birth certificate that can be legally altered to meet the requirements of “Real ID?” It doesn’t make any sense.
VA deciding to play make believe with government processes.
Changing the birth reality to a new pretense about “gender” makes a mockery of a “birth certificate”.
All normal people should sue the government of Virginia as the act reduces the value of THEIR true birth certificates leaving them open to the question “was that your biological sex at birth”.
I’m still waiting for the first lawsuit when a born-female who transitioned to male, and goes through this process, and is listed male on everything including the birth certificate, gets sick, and the doctors treat for something typically male, but it turns out to be a disease more prevalent in women, and the patient dies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/02/male-and-female-what-is-it-like-to-be-intersex
Is anyone here aware that people are born with both genders yet neither one is fully developed and dominant enough to make that person look all male or all female. I have known several. One I went all through school with, being raised as a girl. She also had a penis. They didn’t do surgery or hormone therapy on her, this was back in 1950s and 60s. She was born mostly female with underdeveloped male organs.
Another one I knew in our LaMaze class when we had our first baby. They were going to raise her as a girl and wait till she was going through puberty to decide which one she was more likely to be, male or female.
Another one I knew in our son;s 3rd grade class. Bonnie was being raised as a girl. She looked like a boy in a dress. Her hormones were strictly male and she got into fights all the time. She sure had a lot of testosterone for a girl.
Another one was my 4th grade teacher. She got married but couldn’t have a baby because she was more male than female. I do remember she had facial hair, and definitely a mustache. She was very nice. Her husband was very feminine, but I don’t think he had a gender birth defect.
I knew a gal with two of everything. Two uteruses, two sets of Fallopian tubes. She found out when she went to doc to get birth control pills, when she was getting married. Yes, that is the way we did it back then. No we were not prudes, but we did wait till we got married. Most of us. There were a few girls who got PG then got married, so there were some OOps uh oh moments! This gal had no trouble getting PG and having babies.
Anoter gal was born WITHOUT a uterus. She was unable to have babies.
Our granddaughter was born with one large U shaped kidney. The right side was OK, the left side was not functioning at all. She also had a tethered spine.
Birth defects do happen.
It is about time the babies born transgender can have a birth certificate to match however they turn out.
There was a couple on TV. One of them looked more male. The other looked more female. Both were born both sexes. Thankfully they found each other!