Altering Sex on Their Birth Certificate? is that Legal?

What’s next to change? Let’s change our sex legally! Will we be able to change our birth date in the near future too? The Bend Bulletin printed an article titled “NYC may OK plans to alter certificates”. Inquisitiveness pulled me in. My first thought “what? Names can already be changed legally, so what do they want to alter now.”

According to the article, NYC may permit people, within the city, the right to modify their birth certificate sex without having had a sex change operation. This is just ludicrous. 

If this is passed by the city health board, the person wishing to alter their birth certificate will have to provide affidavits from a mental health provider and a doctor stating why it is imperative their patient be judged a member of the opposite sex and declare the change permanent without the sex change itself. So even though Fred has breasts and a vagina, she is considered to be a male because her newly altered birth certificate states gender as male.

I am not sure how others feel about this topic but it sounds unjustified. Is this a ploy for gay marriage to become legal because now the person is considered a member of the opposite sex and it states so on a legally altered document? You are born male or female and it should not be altered on a legal document.

People can live as they choose but falsifying and altering legal documents should not be right. Soon we will be able to alter our birthdates because we see ourselves as an Aries sign rather than a Gemini. Or better yet, we don’t want to be 50! So if, we get affidavits signed by mental health and a doctor, stating this could be detrimental to our emotional and physical well-being, if the date we were born is not altered. Does this sound right?

Will we be able to change our social security number as well because, now it does not match up with the birth certificate sex and name? Oh, cool that means we get a whole new credit file too?

What is this world coming to? If you want a sex change well then by all rights have one because this is a free country but when it comes to altering legal documents to this extreme is unethical.