In New York You Can Now Be Whatever Gender You Want To Be
Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.
Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.
Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years, but there would be no explicit medical requirements.
“Surgery versus nonsurgery can be arbitrary,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner. “Somebody with a beard may have had breast-implant surgery. It’s the permanence of the transition that matters most.”
Here’s the part that got me:
If approved, the new rule would put New York at the forefront of efforts to redefine gender.
Who knew that gender was something that needed to be redefined? I mean, the differences between boys and girls is something I picked up on before kindergarten, and I’ve never really had a problem with the concept since.
But regardless, how long until some enterprising college student changes his name to Tiffany so that he can capitalize on a women’s tuition grant?
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