[Reverend Wright]

“Yes. The same way my Darling Daughter’s BC lists me as her birth father, even though I didn’t meet her mom until she was three years old...”

Hawaii will definately do a change of parent on the BC, I found a court case on the Hawaii gov website with such a change.

But they won’t change a foreign place of birth to Hawaii.

http://oeqc.doh.hawaii.gov/sites/har/AdmRules1/11-120.pdf

Note statement 3) under Issuance of Certificate, which specifically precludes use of certificate as evidence of USA citizenship.

[null and void]

Yep. The rule adopted in 1981 says that the adoptive parents are listed as the birth parents, doesn't explicitly say that the place of birth is the real location, or only as accurate as the genetics, and there is no indication that

(3) The statement "This certificate is not evidence of United States citizenship for the child or the parents named above." [Eff. FEB 19 1981] (Auth: HRS Secs. 321-9, 338-2) (Imp: HRS Secs. 338-17.7(c), 338-20.5)

is retroactive to adoptions decades earlier, indeed it isn't clear that Hawaii even knows which 1960's vintage records reflect true or fictional places of birth or parentage, without going to the original vault copies, rather than the "official" working records.