>> A birth certificate is a statement of fact, issued by an official authority, attesting to the truthfulness of a birth.
Unless you’re adopted, in which case the true and accurate record of birth has been falsified to state that the adoptive parents gave birth to the adopted child.
Given that this legal fiction has been going on for almost a century, it’s not hard to see why changes for gender ideology wouldn’t also be allowed. The reality is that they’re NOT always true and, yes, this is problematic for many, many reasons.
We should be fighting to prevent ALL changes to birth certificates, other than in the rare cases of clerical error or amending to add a bio father’s name. In all other instances, the birth certificate should not be changed AT ALL.
It is Orwellian to change a historical document. I think my son has changed his birth certificate with his new "legal" name, which includes a different first and last name. How utterly insulting. It is Orwellian to change a historical document. A birth certificate that lists a different name from the chosen birth name and the incorrect sex is a mockery of my pregnancy and delivery, which inherently include substantial effort and medical risks. Changing a birth certificate is another ripple of the trans nightmare in which expressing the nuances about the tentacles of trauma and sorrow is elusive. The absurd defiling of reality and the well-being of everyone involved lurks underneath words.
I agree for the most part. I have two trans adult children and I have made my will such that if any of my children have legally changed their given names at the time of my death (not surnames), they will not get a share of my estate. It is just a little thing I can do to protest them jettisoning the names I carefully and thoughtfully chose for them before their birth. As for birth certificates, is anyone aware that when someone is adopted, the birth certificate is changed? As a lawyer, I have handled many adoptions in the past 28 years and once the adoption was finalized by the court, the next step was to send a certified copy of the adoption order to the state vital records with the application to change the birth certificate. Per the author, that is a legal falsehood. I don’t disagree, but it is how it is done currently. If an adult wants to be adopted by someone other than a biological parent, no notice to the biological parent is even required. An adult child can be adopted by one or two new parents, go through the legal process, and change their birth certificate, all without their biological parents ever knowing. It might be that birth certificates should be changed to have the facts at the time of birth and a section that shows changes after that time and have a reason listed. That would incorporate the truth at birth, and any changes made by the certificated individual after that time. It is more complicated than the author knows. But the author made a good point. A birth certificate is a record made at the time of birth. Why are any changes allowed to be made to it?
My sentiments exactly. When our daughter asked us for her birth certificate when she was in college so she could have it changed, we neglected to find it for her. We knew she would apply for a copy of the birth certificate and ultimately have her name changed on it, but we did not affirm her choice of being trans, so we did not want to be party to a change of this document. Plus the document had our names on it!
"A birth certificate is not the property of the child whose birth is documented. It is a factual record that belongs to the public. It is a factual record not only of the child in question but also of the mother who gave birth to the baby and, in most cases, of the child’s father."
This is the aspect which disturbs me the most. If this is a legal document and does not belong to the named persons, it becomes a sham if it is changed. I don't want my name on a fictitious document.
Along those same lines of incongruous circumstances, how could our daughter have been allowed to continue to attend an all female college in New England and then change her name to a male name and take on the dress and persona of a male? She graduated as a 'male'. The school was fully aware of this well in advance. She had changed her name on the school's registration and all of her professors and friends called her by this name. (She informed us of this just before graduation.) And yet the education loan that we signed and paid for continued to be in her female name.
If I was a foreign nation, I would refuse to accept documents from places that allowed this type of fraud. And let's call it what it really is, which IS fraud. These people have not changed their sex; they will always be the sex they were born as. Every cell in their body know this. If governments want to add a section in passports to show some sort of appearance qualification like "presents as a man" then that's an option. But to lie on a government document that a male is now a female is fraudulent and should be treated as such. I simply cannot believe that actual governmental officials have agreed that this is somehow ok.
This is a much larger and more insidious narrative in the far left/cultural Marxist movement, which involves re-writing history and centering subjective "truth" over all else (which is an oxymoron, because truth is not subjective... more wordsmithing from far left, but I digress...) It prioritizes feelings over objective facts without consideration for the far-reaching implications, which are considerable and dire.
When I first heard that they can change birth certificates, I was dumbfounded. Like you say, these are official public records documenting an actual birth, little foot print and all. I still can’t quite believe that the government allowed people to alter them.
>> A birth certificate is a statement of fact, issued by an official authority, attesting to the truthfulness of a birth.
Unless you’re adopted, in which case the true and accurate record of birth has been falsified to state that the adoptive parents gave birth to the adopted child.
Given that this legal fiction has been going on for almost a century, it’s not hard to see why changes for gender ideology wouldn’t also be allowed. The reality is that they’re NOT always true and, yes, this is problematic for many, many reasons.
We should be fighting to prevent ALL changes to birth certificates, other than in the rare cases of clerical error or amending to add a bio father’s name. In all other instances, the birth certificate should not be changed AT ALL.
It is Orwellian to change a historical document. I think my son has changed his birth certificate with his new "legal" name, which includes a different first and last name. How utterly insulting. It is Orwellian to change a historical document. A birth certificate that lists a different name from the chosen birth name and the incorrect sex is a mockery of my pregnancy and delivery, which inherently include substantial effort and medical risks. Changing a birth certificate is another ripple of the trans nightmare in which expressing the nuances about the tentacles of trauma and sorrow is elusive. The absurd defiling of reality and the well-being of everyone involved lurks underneath words.
yes please... immediately... there is too much confusion
I agree for the most part. I have two trans adult children and I have made my will such that if any of my children have legally changed their given names at the time of my death (not surnames), they will not get a share of my estate. It is just a little thing I can do to protest them jettisoning the names I carefully and thoughtfully chose for them before their birth. As for birth certificates, is anyone aware that when someone is adopted, the birth certificate is changed? As a lawyer, I have handled many adoptions in the past 28 years and once the adoption was finalized by the court, the next step was to send a certified copy of the adoption order to the state vital records with the application to change the birth certificate. Per the author, that is a legal falsehood. I don’t disagree, but it is how it is done currently. If an adult wants to be adopted by someone other than a biological parent, no notice to the biological parent is even required. An adult child can be adopted by one or two new parents, go through the legal process, and change their birth certificate, all without their biological parents ever knowing. It might be that birth certificates should be changed to have the facts at the time of birth and a section that shows changes after that time and have a reason listed. That would incorporate the truth at birth, and any changes made by the certificated individual after that time. It is more complicated than the author knows. But the author made a good point. A birth certificate is a record made at the time of birth. Why are any changes allowed to be made to it?
My sentiments exactly. When our daughter asked us for her birth certificate when she was in college so she could have it changed, we neglected to find it for her. We knew she would apply for a copy of the birth certificate and ultimately have her name changed on it, but we did not affirm her choice of being trans, so we did not want to be party to a change of this document. Plus the document had our names on it!
"A birth certificate is not the property of the child whose birth is documented. It is a factual record that belongs to the public. It is a factual record not only of the child in question but also of the mother who gave birth to the baby and, in most cases, of the child’s father."
This is the aspect which disturbs me the most. If this is a legal document and does not belong to the named persons, it becomes a sham if it is changed. I don't want my name on a fictitious document.
Along those same lines of incongruous circumstances, how could our daughter have been allowed to continue to attend an all female college in New England and then change her name to a male name and take on the dress and persona of a male? She graduated as a 'male'. The school was fully aware of this well in advance. She had changed her name on the school's registration and all of her professors and friends called her by this name. (She informed us of this just before graduation.) And yet the education loan that we signed and paid for continued to be in her female name.
If I was a foreign nation, I would refuse to accept documents from places that allowed this type of fraud. And let's call it what it really is, which IS fraud. These people have not changed their sex; they will always be the sex they were born as. Every cell in their body know this. If governments want to add a section in passports to show some sort of appearance qualification like "presents as a man" then that's an option. But to lie on a government document that a male is now a female is fraudulent and should be treated as such. I simply cannot believe that actual governmental officials have agreed that this is somehow ok.
This is a much larger and more insidious narrative in the far left/cultural Marxist movement, which involves re-writing history and centering subjective "truth" over all else (which is an oxymoron, because truth is not subjective... more wordsmithing from far left, but I digress...) It prioritizes feelings over objective facts without consideration for the far-reaching implications, which are considerable and dire.
The adults have left the room. We need them back.
When I first heard that they can change birth certificates, I was dumbfounded. Like you say, these are official public records documenting an actual birth, little foot print and all. I still can’t quite believe that the government allowed people to alter them.
It is absolutely insane that birth certificates can be changed. Lunacy.