GiddyGap@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoKansas to no longer change transgender people's birth certificates to reflect gender identitiesapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1253arrow-down18
arrow-up1245arrow-down1external-linkKansas to no longer change transgender people's birth certificates to reflect gender identitiesapnews.comGiddyGap@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squaresugarfree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down34·1 year agoIt seems reasonable to me, becoming transgender later in life doesn’t change the official information recorded about you at your birth.
minus-squareinasaba@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·1 year agoThen why do we allow people to change this official information later in life when they change their name, or to add/remove parents?
minus-squareStumblinbear@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·1 year agoYeah, why do we allow changing the names in their birth certificate? That’s weird, too.
minus-squaresugarfree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down21·1 year agoFor parents if the information recorded at the time was not accurate and needs to be amended that’s fine by me. I don’t support names being changed on a birth certificate.
minus-squarespacecowboy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·1 year agoIt doesn’t affect you at all and you’re 100% okay with the issues it brings trans people. Got it.
minus-squareTheBlue22@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoHow does people changing their gender on a piece of paper affect you? It matters to them, why does it matter to you?
It seems reasonable to me, becoming transgender later in life doesn’t change the official information recorded about you at your birth.
Then why do we allow people to change this official information later in life when they change their name, or to add/remove parents?
Yeah, why do we allow changing the names in their birth certificate? That’s weird, too.
For parents if the information recorded at the time was not accurate and needs to be amended that’s fine by me. I don’t support names being changed on a birth certificate.
It doesn’t affect you at all and you’re 100% okay with the issues it brings trans people. Got it.
How does people changing their gender on a piece of paper affect you? It matters to them, why does it matter to you?