Ok? I’m not saying not to do it for them, it is a legitimate case in that it couldn’t be determined at birth or the person, as a result of the ambiguousness, can choose to be either and the initial document was wrong.
I’m saying that if I want to transition tomorrow I shouldn’t change my cert, I’ve lived my life as I am now and while I want to change going forward I can’t and shouldn’t change the past.
It doesn’t change the past, let’s not get so dramatic here. This isn’t back to the future, no one is going to disappear from changing government records to more accurately reflect their sex/gender through a process we already have. It only became a big deal when Republicans re-declared war on LGBT Americans despite it being a decades-old practice.
Should we get this concerned when people change their name? That is also on a birth certificate, should we pass laws about that too? Of course not. We’ve expected women to do it for centuries. Yet somehow sex/gender is now sacrosanct? It’s immutable and must be protected for record keeping? Come on man.
Ok? I’m not saying not to do it for them, it is a legitimate case in that it couldn’t be determined at birth or the person, as a result of the ambiguousness, can choose to be either and the initial document was wrong.
I’m saying that if I want to transition tomorrow I shouldn’t change my cert, I’ve lived my life as I am now and while I want to change going forward I can’t and shouldn’t change the past.
It doesn’t change the past, let’s not get so dramatic here. This isn’t back to the future, no one is going to disappear from changing government records to more accurately reflect their sex/gender through a process we already have. It only became a big deal when Republicans re-declared war on LGBT Americans despite it being a decades-old practice.
Should we get this concerned when people change their name? That is also on a birth certificate, should we pass laws about that too? Of course not. We’ve expected women to do it for centuries. Yet somehow sex/gender is now sacrosanct? It’s immutable and must be protected for record keeping? Come on man.