Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities, the state health department said Friday, citing a new law that prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities.
The decision from the state Department of Health and Environment makes Kansas one of a handful of states that won’t change transgender people’s birth certificates. It already was among the few states that don’t change the gender marker on transgender people’s driver’s licenses.
Those decisions reverse policies that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration set when she took office in 2019. They came in response to court filings by conservative Republican state Attorney General Kris Kobach to enforce the new state law. Enacted by the GOP-controlled Legislature over Kelly’s veto, it took effect July 1 and defines male and female based only on the sex assigned to a person at birth.
Instead of male and female on a birth certificate it should say “penis” or “vagina”
No confusion right?
Check-boxes. For the rare cases were you have to check both.
Check all that apply, sure why not.
Transphobes gonna be transphobic
One never even looked at my birth certificate. Sometimes, I feel like we can just let one go, and this is it. Who honestly cares what a birth certificate says?
Can we just have Sex and Gender. Gender for social shit, sex for like, your healthcare providers.
Your gender identity means nothing to a male-specific affliction.
In Afghanistan when someone wanted to get a visa to travel to the US or Europe they would be asked for their birth certificate as proof of citizenship. The problem is, their wasn’t a system in the country that regulated or even made birth certificates. But the Americans said it was required. So, what do you do? You make one. Now guys are making them everywhere, selling them to whoever wants one. Bam, American democracy established.
Don’t let them know your sex to begin with and they can’t list you at all.
Wow Kansas, you sure showed their genitals who’s the boss.
Just do it, jump Kansas.
What actual purpose does having sex on the birth certificate actually serve?
A lot of laws are tied to people’s sex.
Mandatory military service, retierment age or paternity leave to name a few.
Are there?
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I think all the sex-based US military laws have been reversed.
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Retirement age shouldn’t be related to sex.
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Paternity leave usually doesn’t relate to sex unless you’re talking about maternity leave, and that’s only for the person who gave birth and isn’t really related to what it says on a document.
I think all the sex-based US military laws have been reversed.
Girls still do not have to register for the US draft. Boys, however, do.
Thanks for the clarification. According to this 2-year-old article, Congress is “working” on making the draft universal.
Sorry, I just used examples that first came to my head, but I’m not from the US. I assumed you would have some as well.
And yes, a lot of them should be looked at and changed.
I’m also not from the US, but I can’t think of any laws/regulations that should be sex-based. Sex is often used as placeholder where a more specific term or definition would be more accurate. Sometimes, it should simply be replaced with the term gender, such as in discrimination and balanced hiring laws. Other times, such as in maternity leave, the option might be limited to AFAB, but there’s a more specific and accurate definition like, “a person who gave birth”.
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It provides some padding to whoever is on the bottom
It is a useful form of a means of identification, but in that sense, insisting on identifying as birth sex over ones, represented gender identity, this forced representation makes no sense in that regard. Unless, of course, hate, bigotry, and cruelty are the point.
Is it actually a useful means of identification, though? What does anyone gain from knowing that Paul Blart is a boy?
Sex is useful for doctors and stuff, but does anyone else need to know it so badly that it should be a vital document?
This should have never been an option to begin with.
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I’d reckon you’re against folks ever changing their legal name too, then, for consistency’s sake?
How does this argument make any sense to you other than to be hateful and cruel?
so’s a mortgage but I can still move house
