Incoherence and Rulemaking in the USA
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2008/09/incoherence-and-rulemaking-in-usa.html9/10/2008
Many people are under the impression that everyone has a clear
"legal gender" on record with the government, and that changing "legal
gender" involves presenting some kind of evidence to a specific agency
or institution in order to make a decisive and clear change to the new
category. Because of the long history linking transgender identity
with medical authority and popular cultural beliefs that changing
gender involves surgical procedures, it might especially be assumed
that achieving gender reclassification requires presenting medical
evidence to an appropriate administrative or judicial decisionmaker.
