[Munchkins]

Originally Posted by Jessica‪

I have nothing against anyone who makes an effort to become who they truly believe they are, but I believe that it's very important to keep records about things like this. Imagine the situation where someone is switched at birth? Or if someone is searching for a long lost sibling or a child they were forced to put up for adoption? I think it would be fine for the information to be ADDED to it, but I think something like a birth certificate is too important to alter. Also there are plenty people who have gone through the change and had all of the procedures to be true to who they are, then after a few months or years they make the decision to de-transition, it does happen, would they just get to change their birth cert back again?

Tbh the amount of cases where people actually regret the transition is grossly overexaggerated, i mean why wouldnt it be? theres hardly going to be a lot of positive reuputation for transgender individuals in the media is there, and also how would you view a situation where someone is born intersex, and are forced to have a certain gender on their birth certificate due to their parents who get to choose at birth, what about if they grow up and want to switch to the other gender, you could argue they were never either anyway
You could argue that prehaps they could keep a backup for the old certificate i suppose? but it would not be allowed to be used in any legal procedures or anything, and a new one could be issued for them now, then if anything does happen the old one can always be referred to, but it would be completely confidential to only those who have to know?