A scalpel can't rewrite history, whatever the surgery
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/a-scalpel-cant-rewrite-history-whatever-the-surgery-2236627.html (http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/a-scalpel-cant-rewrite-history-whatever-the-surgery-2236627.html)
6/27/10
It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind, but it's not one that Dr Lydia Foy has exercised much. Since first squaring up to the Irish government over a decade ago, the transsexual former dentist has never wavered from the belief that her birth certificate ought to have been altered following gender reassignment surgery to reflect the fact that she was now, physically, what she had always felt herself, psychologically, to be, namely female.