I'm not sure the article as written is all that misleading.
farah conveniently left out the part of the change that requires each applicant to document an on-going process of treatment leading to a complete 'sex-change' procedure.
The concept is despicable but not exactly as Farah chose to describe it.
Not misleading? The article is about...
"an imminent action by the New York City Board of Health to permit people born in the city to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates "
and
"Beginning next month, people born in New York will be able to change historical records permanently."
Now, if the guy wrote the article in 1971, maybe it would make sense. Do people look into stories like this before they post them or just believe it as gospel because of the source??