Now you know......
Posted on 03/13/2020 11:09:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The state of New York is now permitting minors who self-identify as something other than their biological sex to alter their birth certificates.
Officials in the Empire state announced this week that young people ages 16 and under who assert that they are transgender or nonbinary will be able to alter their sex marker on their birth certificate to reflect their "gender identity." Medical affidavits are not required to make the change.
Proponents of the new policy hailed the move.
“The actions announced today rid the state of a discriminatory and outdated policy and keeps New York rightly among the states leading the country with policies that respect the lives of transgender people,” said Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, senior attorney for Lambda Legal, calling the announcement a "victory."
"It shouldn’t take a minor and his family suing the state to get their rights recognized, but with this announcement, New York state eliminates an outdated and unjust barrier to transgender minors’ ability to be themselves and have accurate, essential identity documents.”
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James said the policy change would take effect immediately.
The change in policy came about as a result of a lawsuit from a resident in Houston, Texas, who was born in New York. The plaintiff in the case is biologically female, goes by M.H.W., and identifies as a boy.
New York has allowed adults to alter their birth records since 2014. According to Dallas Voice, it now joins a handful of other states and cities that permit minors to do it: New York City, Oregon, Washington state, Massachusetts, Alaska and Washington, D.C.
Critics say that birth certificates serve a necessary public function containing vital information necessary for recordkeeping and for measuring statistics where biological sex is relevant and ought not be experimented on with self-declared identity categories.
In an interview with The Christian Post last January about New York City's allowance of a third gender marker on birth certificates, philosopher Daniel Moody, author of The Flesh Made Word, stressed that the purpose of a birth certificate is to capture truth in language, thereby connecting persons to laws — not only for the sake of the individual but for society as a whole. Permitting a gender-neutral "X" in place of "M" for male or "F" for female renders biological sex obsolete, he said.
"No legal regime can contain within itself two versions of human identity. Law cannot tolerate a situation in which some people are fundamentally a sex (body) while other people are essentially a gender (mind). The two challengers for the crown of most essential identity will eventually come into conflict with one another, at which point something has to give," he explained at the time, calling this the crux of the matter.
He continued: "In law, bedrock identity can only be sex for everybody or sex for nobody. And given that X provides a vehicle by which to avoid having one's sex registered in law, the situation is now sex for nobody."
"As is the case with its bogus scientific claims, gender wears the words male and female as an effective and efficient disguise."
That’s great when trying to ID a body and find a uterus but the birth certificate says “male”
I can see all sort of hilarity ensuing!
(I love it when hilarity ensues)
You are either XX, XY, or some sort of rare freak.
Put that on birth certificates.
How many choices do they get?
Pandering to mentally disturbed and unstable is never a good policy. Yet more leftist lunacy...
insanity abounds
Now you know......
Thus rendering another state’s basic records worthless.
These are supposed to be used to establish facts.
Why not let people change their birth dates because they “feel” like they are older or younger or they want a different astrological sign....../s
We need a contemporary Dean Swift to put these "reforms" into perspective.
“Why not let people change their birth dates because they “feel” like they are older or younger or they want a different astrological sign....../s”
Just wait.
Outstanding show...1:39:41 is a tear jerker. Bring kleenex.
RE: Outstanding show...1:39:41 is a tear jerker. Bring kleenex.
I can’t, I need them to replace the Toilet Paper I can’t find because of the panic buying. :)
But then, I am told not to touch my face. LOL !!
When can I change species? That’s what I want to know. Genetics is just old white men science, anyways.
Another day, another delusion.
Change your sex on paper. If changing things on paper had any value, Joe Biden would declare himself sane.
Down the slippery slope of making adults out of minors, depriving minors the distinction of not being legally responsible for their own decisions; all in the false idea of being “kind” to the minor.
LOL! Great humor...getting 2 totalitarians with one post.
Biological sex should be recorded on a person’s birth certificate, XX or XY. This answers the questions about who or what the person’s physical body is. What the person chooses to identify as, has no bearing on their genetic composition. If a person’s chromosomes are an actual genetic variation, then that belongs on their birth certificate.
Once again conflating sex with gender and gender with sex. By the definitions the activist communities themselves use, they are not the same. But the same community deliberately uses them interchangeably to confuse the general public into believing they are the same thing.
In this case, the change to the birth certificate should not be permitted. The only change that is permissible is the addition of a box for Intersex for use in the small percentage of births where the child has elements of both female and male genitalia. If they want to indicate gender, incorporate another box for it and make sure it is pretty big as there are currently 120+(and counting) genders identified. Make the gender designation changeable so that when someone decides man/woman just isn’t getting it, they can fill out an affidavit and file it with the county to change their GENDER on their birth certificate.
By the way, this is the solution for the public restroom and sports competition issues as well: separate sex and gender. Male, Female, and Gender Neutral facilities and competitions. I’m sure that all the virtue-signalling liberals will be only too glad to fully sponsor the facilities and competitions for “their people.”
So I could change mine to my favorite dinosaur
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