• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The purpose of the document is to record facts but you’re ok if those facts are wrong sometimes. That seems strange to me.

    Why does the document event need a gender or sex? We’re recording that a person was born for proof of citizenship. Citizenship doesn’t require genitalia.

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      We’re recording for a number of reasons which includes birth of citizenship. There are important demographic reasons for why you need to know what % of your population is male versus female.

      For example, policy in China where there are a larger ratio of males would need to be different than in Russia where there is a higher ratio of females.

      I don’t really see the issue in all of this. A trans person should be treated as whatever gender they wanna be but they are born one sex or the other. We can’t pretend otherwise, makes no sense.

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        Sex. Isn’t. Binary. Intersex people exist. They exist. They are real.

        I’d agree with you if there were three options: obviously male, obviously female, TBD. That would be more accurate. But to claim there are only two and you know at birth is just ignorant.

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          Ok then put TBD on ones you can’t tell at birth. Sure, that makes sense. There are exceptions to everything.

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          What percentage of people are born with both, or none or indistinguishable sexual organs? I’m not entirely against TBD for the record but I think your argument is disingenuous, not every person who is trans is one the incredibly rare circumstances where this issue arises.

          Some people live as one gender for a long time before transitioning and while I’m happy for them to do as they please and live a safe and happy life I don’t think they should change their birth cert. Official documents are used for am enormous amount of statistics and changing them serves only to confuse the data and misrepresent facts. All that is needed is an amendment document that shows that while their birth cert says male they are now female. That’s it

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            Around 1in 1,000.

            You are going through ridiculous leaps and lengths to avoid the obvious simple solution that already exists today. And for what? A strange need for a document to be immutable? Perfection of historical information?

            Those seem like tenuous reasons do something that actively takes options from people who value those options.

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              A strange need for a document to be immutable? Perfection of historical information?

              Is it so strange that someone expects an official document about someone’s birth to accurately represent that birth?

              But is that what we want? Fuck it, let’s change the past and pretend it’s something that’s a little more pleasant. It’s “for a good reason”. To make someone feel better. Get rid of anything that might cause discomfort while you’re at it. Let’s get rid of slavery - might make people feel uncomfortable. Seems you agree more with DeSantis’s fascist revisionism than you might initially expect.

              People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect no matter who they are. But we cannot start playing make believe to protect feelings. A rock is a rock is a rock. If you were born a male then you were born a male end of story.

              You can transition after, and people should show you respect and kindness. But forever and for the rest of history you would have been born a male.

              It makes me feel so frustrated how this ideology has impregnated the left. We are losing the war against fascism and here we are focusing on absolute absurdities.

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                  Are you claiming birth certificates are not generally accurate? I haven’t personally examined a large number of them - just close family members & girlfriends. Every one I’ve looked at has been accurate.

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                    You can’t be so concerned about accuracy that changing 1 in a thousand is a problem for you, and then use the word ‘generally’. You want ridiculously high precision, or you wouldn’t care if a tiny percentage went back to correct theirs.

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                  The birth certificate doesn’t typically get changed when you change your name. But yeah, I would disagree with both things equally. I don’t think we should change birth certificate at all. I actually think it’s a dangerous thing to start doing.

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              You’re off by about 1000-3500 according to the study i just found. “The estimated frequency of genital ambiguity is reported to be in the range of 1:2000-1:4500”

              If the document was the summary of the person then fine change it. If the only people that were looking to change it were those affected by genital ambiguity mentioned then fine change it. But it isn’t the case, not everyone who is trans is someone like that, and they don’t have to be. They were born as one gender and they want to live as another, that’s fine but don’t change records to suit that. You don’t move house and change your birth location.

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                  Ok? I’m not saying not to do it for them, it is a legitimate case in that it couldn’t be determined at birth or the person, as a result of the ambiguousness, can choose to be either and the initial document was wrong.

                  I’m saying that if I want to transition tomorrow I shouldn’t change my cert, I’ve lived my life as I am now and while I want to change going forward I can’t and shouldn’t change the past.

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                How about this: I’ll enjoy my updated birth certificate, and you can go fuck yourself?

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                  1 year ago

                  Very good counter argument, well thought out and presented. Maybe get the cert amended to show you self identify as an asshole?