• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t understand why it’s the school asking for this and not whoever updated the birth certificate? How did school administrators become the judges of who is a boy or girl?

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      7 hours ago

      My (cis female) birth certificate erroneously was filled out with “male”. Same error happened on the birth certificate of my mother (who is also cis female). It’s never caused either of us any problems. Schools enrolled us as female, driver’s licenses say female, etc.

      When I was in college in the early 2000s, my dad’s mother helped me get a copy of my birth certificate, and was horrified her beautiful granddaughter was listed as male. She called up the county clerk and raised Cain, and then informed me it had been corrected. I’ve never needed to get a fresh copy since then, so I don’t know for sure, but it sounded like the word of an angry old lady was enough to get an update filed.

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        7 hours ago

        Angry old ladies are the single scariest force on the planet.

        Because if you make one angry, then you have to answer to all of their friends, family, caretakers, religious leaders, and bingo dealers.

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      10 hours ago

      republican laws often give the final say to the loudest karen and the cost onto the schools.

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      Because their the ones who will be prosecuted under the law if they allow a kid to play on the wrong team.