Attempt to alter birth certificate gender fails

[Suzy]

Green Bay man vows to appeal

Green Bay Press-Gazette

By ROBERT IMRIE,  The Associated Press
December 5, 2007

WAUSAU — A Green Bay man who amended his birth certificate to change his sex to female failed Tuesday in efforts to have it revised again to identify him as male.  Stephanie Calewarts asked for the latest change after marrying a woman last year. Brown County revoked their marriage license because Calewarts' birth certificate listed him as female. Same-sex marriages are banned in Wisconsin.

[Gabrielle]

Well there, same sex marriages are banned there, I think it should have been revoked then.  I am for any adult marrying another adult personally, but the law is the law currently.  If we want to be accepted as our target gender, and yet have a same sex marriage where the law prohibits it, what gives us the right I say to be special compared to GG Lesbians or Gays.

[tekla]

I'm not even sure about what this person wants, except maybe a birth certificate with a post-it note over the gender box so they could change it whenever they want.  So if Wisconsin law prohibits same sex marriage then could I change my gender and then marry my boyfriend?  Really, these people have got these laws so messed up that they don't even understand them anymore.

[Kate]

Well there, same sex marriages are banned there, I think it should have been revoked then.  I am for any adult marrying another adult personally, but the law is the law currently.  If we want to be accepted as our target gender, and yet have a same sex marriage where the law prohibits it, what gives us the right I say to be special compared to GG Lesbians or Gays.

I agree, and yet things get weird if you marry legally as opposite sexes, but THEN change your sex. Pennsylvania doesn't allow same-sex marriages either, but we weren't the same sex when we got married... so what happens after SRS? Do those laws only prohibit GETTING married? Or do they also nullify what was originally a perfectly legal marriage?

In any case, this particular person is kinda out there. They wanted TWO birth certificates? They changed their sex marker because a surgeon said to do it... and didn't think there'd be any consequences? They sound so totally reckless and unthinking in their actions.

~Kate~