Male or Female?

New York City’s Board of Health is considering allowing a person to change their sex on a birth certificate. Guess there are no other pressing issues in New York that the board needs to address.

Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.

Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.

Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years, but there would be no explicit medical requirements.

Sex is a physical reality extended to the chromosomal level. If you have two x chromosomes, you are female. If you have an x and a y, you are male. It doesn’t matter what surgical mutilation, chromosomes determine the sex of a human being not a stroke of the pen!