I wonder what the standards are to make such a change (I know, standards obviously mean nothing to these people)?
I also wonder about the effects of this on criminal investigations.
We live in a very, very sick world, and its only getting worse.
Great, just great. Now we get to use the restrooms with guys. Can hardly wait 'til the next draft, the drafted will just all become females. Cheaper than going to Canada.
How about the troublemaking teen boy who wants to peep around the girls' bathroom or locker room? Can he change his sex to be allowed to travel unmolested into these private areas?
Can a man who impregnates his girlfriend change his sexual identity to female to excercise his (her) right not to become a parent?
And if a 6'3", bearded, 250 lb body builder is turned down by the female basketball team (even though his NEW NYC birth certificate says he is a female) - he will sue the school to high heaven. This actually could be the end of affirmative action...
We are becoming a depraved society.
And for use in establishing personal identity, essential in preventing fraud, identity theft, and for the purposes of criminal investigation --- it is simply absurd to permit a person to falsify the records by chnging the record of sex at birth.
Even surgical transgenders should be satisfied with an asterisk and a codicil attached to the original document --NOT a falsification of the birth record.
And of course, if copied by other jurisdictions, this ruling would in practice overturn all the monumental efforts made by defense-of-marriage activists (and supported by huge majorities of Americna voters) because the sex categories of "man"and "woman" would become completely fluid, and thus meaningless.
This has to be overturned by lawsuit, and the officials responsible for it sacked. And soon.
Very very poor journalism.
"Beginning next month, people born in New York will be able to change historical records – permanently. People who were born girls will be able to say they were actually born boys. People who were actually born boys will be able to say they were born girls."
Fact is that..
"All but three states now allow people who have had a sex change to get a new birth certificate and New York City has done so since 1971. The city now issues about a dozen of the revised birth certificates a year. "
The story here is that in NYC, you no longer need to show proof of surgery any more. But unfortunately, this very very poorly written article misses the main point.
Am running out the door, I'll ping it later if wag doesn't get to it.
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Follow-up to yesterday's story.
The *really* sick thing is that this will negatively impact health. There are distinct medical differences between male and female and with this decision medical histories can become meaningless..
This is supposed to benefit those who believe they were born the wrong sex and want to change their sexual identity.
How about people who don't like how old they are? They should be allowed to have their birth certificates changed to show a later date of birth, so they would be younger.
If racism is wrong, and sexism is wrong, and heterosexism is wrong, then certainly ageism is wrong too.
I actually talked to some D's at the polls yesterday about this and they had no problem with changing the gender or unisex bathrooms....one actually said...."well your own bathroom is unisex and so are the hospitals"...???!!!
A DNA sample should be taken of each idiot who wants to avail themselves of this new law to prove true gender.
This is the kind of thing that makes me glad that I will only live a few more decades.