This would simply fly in the fact of reality. This would be the crowning achievement of subjective opinion over objective fact. So of course, it’ll probably happen.
SF Gate reports:
Joann Prinzivalli has gone through a lot to be a woman, and she wants her birth certificate to show it.
Born Paul Prinzivalli Jr., she says she knew her true identity was female by the time she was 4 and broached the subject with a mental-health adviser as a teenager. But it was decades before she bucked family expectations and social pressures, changed her name and underwent electrolysis and hormone treatment to make a change that cost Prinzivalli her spouse, family, home and job.
About 10 years later, she’s still a man in one important context: on her birth certificate. She’s been unable to change the gender listed on the document because of city rules that she and some other transgender people call discriminatory, intrusive and out of step with recent moves by the federal government and some states to make it easier for transgender people to change ID documents.
Perhaps he doesn’t understand what his transgender surgery accomplished. The reason he wanted the surgery is because he wanted to change something about himself. According to him he wanted to change from being a man to a woman. Well, first he had to be a man then which is what his birth certificate states.
I don’t think I understand this desire currently rampant in our culture to have everyone else recognize their delusions as reality. It reminds me of the gay marriage debate which seeks to codify one thing as another as if recognition from the state makes it right. Distorting reality in the name of tolerance is just a legalized distortion.
March 24, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Pretty sure HI already does this.
You're quite right, though– it is an attempt to alter a statement of basic facts.
March 24, 2011 at 9:57 pm
The birth certificate describes the person at birth. Changing it would be stupid, no matter what amount of disfiguration a person has intentionally had done to themselves.
Paul was a baby boy at birth, and no manner of cutting and hormone "therapy" can change history. And no amount of either will change that every cell in his body is marked with a Y chromosome.
I fear the day scientists figure out how to modify the genetic code of adults to the point where that would become an issue.
March 25, 2011 at 12:50 am
Still can't change DNA.
Future generations will look at this and wonder why we not only tolerated, but encouraged, people to mutilate themselves in such a way.
March 25, 2011 at 2:00 am
What 4 year old knows what they want? I just find that a ridiculous thing to say.
I could not agree with you more on the fact that people want us to believe their delucionaly ideals. The scary thing is that people are doing exactly that hence the reason society is more accepting of this kind of thing.
March 25, 2011 at 12:12 pm
"I don't think I understand this desire currently rampant in our culture to have everyone else recognize their delusions as reality".
This is because reality is your world, and delusion is theirs.
Political correctness is nothing else than the decision that simple facts should not be allowed to come in the way of people's fantasies.
Mundabor
March 25, 2011 at 5:32 pm
He will always be a man. Sadly, he is now a man with mutilated genitals but I think the United States should operate on the law I just made-up:
No individual can change their Birth Certificate until Obama produces his original long-fom certificate of live birth and signed by a real doctor, not some Union Guy from SEIU