Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Cindy on July 31, 2011, 03:23:49 AM Return to Full Version

Title: Gender assignment on birth certificate.
Post by: Cindy on July 31, 2011, 03:23:49 AM


I had to search through old personal papers today and found my birth certificate.

It says: Gender. Boy.  I'm pretty sure boy is not a gender, it is a sex?

Is that enough to question? Or am I clutching at straws :laugh: :laugh:

Cindy
Title: Re: Gender assignment on birth certificate.
Post by: LordKAT on July 31, 2011, 04:22:02 AM
Sometimes straws are worth grabbing. I always thought all birth certs  used male or female. Using boy seems strange like someone figured you would never grow up to be a man. I wonder if they knew how right they were if that were so.
Title: Re: Gender assignment on birth certificate.
Post by: caitlin_adams on July 31, 2011, 04:30:26 AM
Tell them 'boy isn't a gender, I want a new one, this time let me write it'.

I've never heard of boy on a birth certificate. Odd.

Title: Re: Gender assignment on birth certificate.
Post by: Lisbeth on July 31, 2011, 08:46:06 AM
Quote from: caitlin_adams on July 31, 2011, 04:30:26 AM
Tell them 'boy isn't a gender, I want a new one, this time let me write it'.

I've never heard of boy on a birth certificate. Odd.
That old country doctor who filled it out didn't have a bureaucrat mentality like you seem to expect.