Topics: Creation; Culture; Government; Human Condition; Human Nature; Sex Changes
References: Genesis 1:27; 2:22–25; Psalm 139:13; Proverbs 14:12; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 2 Timothy 4:3
The proposal to allow people to change the sex on their birth certificates without sex-change procedures got scrapped in January 2007 when the New York City Board of Health unexpectedly withdrew the motion.
Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden, who had enthusiastically supported the plan only a month before, told The New York Times that institutions such as hospitals and jails had raised concerns the board hadn’t considered, such as, Would female patients end up in hospital beds next to men? Would male inmates wind up in women’s cell blocks?
“This is something we hadn’t thought through, frankly,” Frieden said. “What the birth certificate shows does have implications beyond what the birth certificate shows.”
—“The Buzz,” World (December 23, 2006)