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Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one's sex on a birth certificate (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Beaver@lemmy.ca to c/transgender@lemmy.ml

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"At birth" isn't an ideal - it's a fact. FFS - it's in the actual name of the certificate.

The exact and only point of a birth certificate is to record that on such-and-such date at such-and-such time, a baby was born to [this] person, and it possessed [these] distinguishing characteristics. That's it. Who or what that baby became later in life isn't relevant. At all.

In literally any circumstance where a birth certificate is needed, “now” is going to be more useful than information that is decades out of date.

Which is in fact exactly why I said that "that’s an argument against using, or requiring, a birth certificate as ID" - because a birth certificate, of necessity, is a record of information that's significantly out-of-date.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

The ideal in question isn't "at birth", it's whatever it is that drives folk to think "at birth" somehow matters more than "now"

because a birth certificate, of necessity, is a record of information that's significantly out-of-date.

There is no such necessity. I live in Australia. Here, trans folk can get their birth certificate amended to reflect their correct gender.

If it was a "necessity" that it not be changed, that wouldn't be possible.

Your insistence that it can't be changed "for reasons" isn't a necessity, it's an ideal (and a harmful one at that).