In a move some see as an end-run toward same-sex marriages, the New York City Board of Health, with the support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is considering a policy that would permit people born in the city to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates.
The idea, as described by advocates, is to separate sexual identification from anatomy. There would be no need to have a sex-change operation. All that would be needed would be an affidavit from a doctor or mental health professional making the case for the change.
Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years. But there would be no medical requirements.
"Surgery versus non-surgery can be arbitrary," explained Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city's health commissioner, to the New York Times. "Somebody with a beard may have had breast-implant surgery. It’s the permanence of the transition that matters most."
The move, which appears likely to take place soon, is the result of a major push by the so-called "transgender" lobby – an outgrowth of the homosexual activist agenda.
If this passes, we assume it would no longer be necessary for same-sex marriage to be legalized. One only has to get a 'doctor' to 'declare' them to be of the opposite sex to marry someone who is actually of the same sex.
Truth has apparently become meaningless to the LGBT lobby and their supporters.
Irrationality is reaching new heights (depths?) in America...
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