We are all blobs now
WHERE ARE THE GROWNUPS???
The American Medical Association says core information should be left off birth certificates because…[ ]
Sex should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates, the American Medical Association (AMA) said Monday.
Requiring it can lead to discrimination and unnecessary burden on individuals whose current gender identity does not align with their designation at birth, namely when they register for school or sports, adopt, get married, or request personal records.
Enough already. “Gender identity” isn’t a thing. We are what we are. We don’t have species identity or time identity or geographic identity or any other kind of identity that contradicts the dull facts. Think of yourself as magical all you like, but quit trying to make the real world agree with your fantasies. We’re not interested. There are too many of us, we can’t keep track of everyone’s many Imported Luxury Identities. Birth certificates aren’t there for purposes of self-actualization or pretend-validation.
“Assigning sex using binary variables in the public portion of the birth certificate fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity,” Underwood said, and can be used to discriminate.
There is no such “medical spectrum.” Fantasy isn’t medical.
Really, where are the grownups?
Year of birth should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates. Requiring it can lead to discrimination and unnecessary burden on individuals whose current age identity does not align with their designation at birth.
Place of birth should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates. Requiring it can lead to discrimination and unnecessary burden on individuals whose current locational identity does not align with their designation at birth.
Parents should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates. Requiring it can lead to discrimination and unnecessary burden on individuals whose current familial identity does not align with their designation at birth.
Birth certificates should just be blank.
Also, number, like gender, is a medical spectrum. The majority of people are very close to 1 (typical range is anywhere between .87 and 1.1), but some people are closer to 2, and many people are multiple systems, whose number identity can be 2, 3, dozens, hundreds, or even millions. These are the most oppressed minority ever.
On the one hand we have these elaborate “Gender Reveal Parties” where future parents and guests make a big fat hairy deal over whether the upcoming baby is a Boy (!!!) or a Girl (!!!)
And, on the other hand, we’ve got medical experts wanting to prevent birth certificates from recording sex.
On the face of it, the partygoers and physicians are on opposite sides here. But I think they might be connected. If our culture didn’t place so much emphasis on the need for the nursery to have the proper decorations, it’s possible we wouldn’t be getting children and young adults who think it was decorated wrong because they’re not that sex.
Egggggzactly.
Strange, it used to be that trans people were preaching that they were of sex A but gender identity B, with no dispute that their sex was the one they were born with. That was what ‘trans’ referred to – they were crossing from one to the other. But that was what, five years ago? Things have changed pace that has surprised even some TRAs, who have sometimes found themselves on the wrong side of gender theory simply because they remained consistent with earlier theory.
Nowadays, gender identity is the be all and end all and all other things must accommodate it. And so this latest demand: let trans people lie about the historical facts of their birth. Word meanings and biology be damned, a person was female or male all along… if they say so.
@ Sastra, #3
I think they mean: a Boy (!!!!!) or a Girl (!)
More seriously, though:
There is so much wrong here.
“Lead to discrimination,” how? Sex is what it is. It isn’t the listing of your sex on your birth certificate that “leads to discrimination.” What might “lead to discrimination” is you pretending to be a sex you are not. Sex matters. “Gender identity,” not so much. Of course, if you are otherwise behaving properly, you should not suffer employment discrimination, or housing discrimination, and so on, just because you are gender non-conforming. That’s something that can be addressed head-on, so there isn’t discrimination discrimination based on “gender identity.” That’s really got nothing to do with putting your sex on your birth certificate. People don’t have to see your birth certificate to see you and know what sex you are.
Whatever “burden” there is in having a truthful statement of your actual, immutable, sex listed on your birth certificate, is a necessary burden, not an unnecessary one. Truthful information about the sex of the infant on the birth certificate is essential to keep accurate vital statistics. It helps verify the actual identity of the person named. Infants don’t have a “gender identity.” How could they? They have insufficient cognitive capacity for that.
“Gender identity” is not “designated [or ‘assigned’] at birth,” but sex is observed and recorded. There’s no option, selection, or choice on offer other than the — one — actual sex that the infant is. There is no discretion involved. It is a ministerial act.
What do you mean, “current gender identity”? You are giving away the game here. “Gender identity” is malleable, uncertain, changeable, standardless, amorphous, hazy, subjective, arbitrary, capricious, whimsical, and incoherent.
What a stupid — and deliberately obfuscatory — way to phrase something: “individuals whose current gender identity does not align with their designation at birth.” As noted, it’s not “gender identity” that is “designated at birth.” It’s sex. There’s no choice or selection about it. It’s either one sex or the other and it’s patently obvious in 99% of all cases. I think the concept of whether a gender identity “aligns” with a person’s sex needs to be deconstructed. ANY “gender identity” is perfectly available to a person of either sex. AFAICT, the claimed “gender identity” is compatible, i.e., “aligns with,” either sex. Women and men can like “femininity.” Men andd women can like “masculinity.” (Some people reject all “gender” concepts.) People of either sex can have any “gender identity” they want. Since “gender identity” is entirely made up, it “aligns” with whatever the sex of the person is who has the “gender identity.”
As to the “burden” on people, “when they register for school or sports, adopt, get married, or request personal records,” the burden to refrain from lying about your actual sex is trivial w/r/t the person with the “gender identity,” while the need to have truthful information on school records, when entering sex-based sports categories, when adopting or being adopted, when getting married, or when keeping and providing vital government or institutional records is essential. If genderists are serious about treating gender claims in society as normal, and no big deal, then the thing to do is to make it okay for men to be gender non-conforming or for women to be gender non-conforming. Then there would be no problem that a man presents as a “feminine” person. The genderists could just be themselves without lying about their sex. Then the discrimination problem goes away.
Remember that thing where the toy company decided that Marvel Action heroes from the MCU movies shouldn’t include the women superheroes, such as Black Widow? It was based on the expectation that the toys would be bought by boys, and that boys wouldn’t want women superhero toys.
A society this overheated on gender roles is naturally going to cause anomie among those who just don’t want to be pigeonholed; and the “Treatment” is to medicalize or affirm that they aren’t the same gender as their birth. I feel like Captain Obvious shouting into the wind. If a baby boy is born and nursed in a blue room but decides he wants pink instead it use to be a cause for alarm. Now it’s cause to fix him by treating him like a girl and shower praise on his parents for being so brave in recognizing his inner girl.