A strange need for a document to be immutable? Perfection of historical information?
Is it so strange that someone expects an official document about someone’s birth to accurately represent that birth?
But is that what we want? Fuck it, let’s change the past and pretend it’s something that’s a little more pleasant. It’s “for a good reason”. To make someone feel better. Get rid of anything that might cause discomfort while you’re at it. Let’s get rid of slavery - might make people feel uncomfortable. Seems you agree more with DeSantis’s fascist revisionism than you might initially expect.
People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect no matter who they are. But we cannot start playing make believe to protect feelings. A rock is a rock is a rock. If you were born a male then you were born a male end of story.
You can transition after, and people should show you respect and kindness. But forever and for the rest of history you would have been born a male.
It makes me feel so frustrated how this ideology has impregnated the left. We are losing the war against fascism and here we are focusing on absolute absurdities.
Are you claiming birth certificates are not generally accurate? I haven’t personally examined a large number of them - just close family members & girlfriends. Every one I’ve looked at has been accurate.
You can’t be so concerned about accuracy that changing 1 in a thousand is a problem for you, and then use the word ‘generally’. You want ridiculously high precision, or you wouldn’t care if a tiny percentage went back to correct theirs.
Do you get this upset when people change their names? That was also recorded at birth. I would say that’s a lot more consequential then simply changing the stated gender.
The birth certificate doesn’t typically get changed when you change your name. But yeah, I would disagree with both things equally. I don’t think we should change birth certificate at all. I actually think it’s a dangerous thing to start doing.
That’s very silly. People have augmented birth certificates for decades. No one cared until the GOP set their sights on LGBT people against these past years. This is the same crap they pulled with mail in ballots. We’ve had states doing it since the 70’s and no one batted an eye until the GOP suddenly realized it was to their advantage to attack it. Just like birth certificates now.
Is it so strange that someone expects an official document about someone’s birth to accurately represent that birth?
But is that what we want? Fuck it, let’s change the past and pretend it’s something that’s a little more pleasant. It’s “for a good reason”. To make someone feel better. Get rid of anything that might cause discomfort while you’re at it. Let’s get rid of slavery - might make people feel uncomfortable. Seems you agree more with DeSantis’s fascist revisionism than you might initially expect.
People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect no matter who they are. But we cannot start playing make believe to protect feelings. A rock is a rock is a rock. If you were born a male then you were born a male end of story.
You can transition after, and people should show you respect and kindness. But forever and for the rest of history you would have been born a male.
It makes me feel so frustrated how this ideology has impregnated the left. We are losing the war against fascism and here we are focusing on absolute absurdities.
Yes this is strange to want accuracy where there is none.
Are you claiming birth certificates are not generally accurate? I haven’t personally examined a large number of them - just close family members & girlfriends. Every one I’ve looked at has been accurate.
You can’t be so concerned about accuracy that changing 1 in a thousand is a problem for you, and then use the word ‘generally’. You want ridiculously high precision, or you wouldn’t care if a tiny percentage went back to correct theirs.
Do you get this upset when people change their names? That was also recorded at birth. I would say that’s a lot more consequential then simply changing the stated gender.
The birth certificate doesn’t typically get changed when you change your name. But yeah, I would disagree with both things equally. I don’t think we should change birth certificate at all. I actually think it’s a dangerous thing to start doing.
That’s very silly. People have augmented birth certificates for decades. No one cared until the GOP set their sights on LGBT people against these past years. This is the same crap they pulled with mail in ballots. We’ve had states doing it since the 70’s and no one batted an eye until the GOP suddenly realized it was to their advantage to attack it. Just like birth certificates now.
How on earth could it be considered dangerous?