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Arpig -> RE: Redo You - Gender as personal choice (11/18/2006 6:04:29 AM)
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Transphobia, not so in disguise, seems somewhat abundant on this board. Fabulous.
Typical. Start throwing out the accusations of Xphobia when somebody finds something done to make a small segment of society feel good to be ridiculous. I personally don't give a shit what gender you were born, nor what sex you feel you really are. I don't care if you choose to undergo any medical procedures or not, nor do I care if you dress as a man, woman, or as one of the other mythical sexes.
The fact remains that the idea of changing one's birth certificate id dumb. That is a document that records the biological fact of one's birth. You can alter the records all you want, but it doesn't alter the facts any...if you were born with wobbly-danglybits, then you were born with them...however much you may wish otherwise.
Reality is, and fudging the documents that record those facts doesn't change those facts, all that does is make the documents unreliable.
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and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.
Permanent, right up until somebody decides to challenge that in court...but your honour, I have changed since when I had the record falsified to match my emotional needs...please let me be what I was born.....
The documents recording the physical facts of one's birth and death should do just that, record the physical facts of one's birth & death. If a child is born male, and later in life identifies as female, regardless of how early on that person may have begun identifying as being the opposite sex, the fact is...that child does not identify as male or female...that child is barely cognizant of its existance, nor does an early appearance of "Gender Identity Disorder" in any way alter the physical facts of the child's birth.
What is the point of a birth certificate? To make a factual record of the birth. For whatever reason, it was long ago decided that the physical external sexual characteristics of the child should be recorded. This law now proposes to allow people to go back, and alter the record to reflect what they think (or feel) should have been the facts, but due to an accident of genetics were not. The purpose of the certificate is to record those accidents of genetics....the child was born apparnetly female with 5 fingers on each hand and 5 toes on each foot, and with no disfiguring marks, etc. or perhaps that the child was born Male with a cleft palate, or in a very small number of cases, that the child was born with external sexual characteristics of both genders...the physical facts. It is a historical record, and I am against tampering with those.
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