Well, I've already got in trouble once with this subject.
It's just a philosophical question, just among us.
Politically, I support anything that will make life easier for us.
The question came up about altering birth certificates.
One could maintain that a birth certificate is a record of a historical fact and should represent what actually happened.
Others could counter that an actual mistake in gender identification was made at that point in time and should be fixed.
(Me, personally, I think that at my birth it was not unreasonable to write "Boy" down in the birth certificate.)
I certainly believe that all current forms of ID, passport, driver's license, credit cards, library cards, etc.
should be able to be easily and quickly altered to reflect a person's gender and name.
I think that requiring SRS is a huge obstacle to many people and causes discrepancies
when one agency will accept a doctor's letter and another only a surgeon's SRS letter.
One of the aspects that makes birth certificates so touchy, is that although they are not
commonly used as day to day identification, they are used as proof for altering practical ID's.
My question is, how much do we want to alter historical records?
Should it be possible to alter marriage certificates? Birth certificates of our former children?
I don't really know, that's why I'm asking.
For me, I'll be happy when all my current ID's are all in complete agreement.
I may change my birth certificate, I may not.
