A strange need for a document to be immutable? Perfection of historical information?
Is it so strange that someone expects an official document about someone’s birth to accurately represent that birth?
But is that what we want? Fuck it, let’s change the past and pretend it’s something that’s a little more pleasant. It’s “for a good reason”. To make someone feel better. Get rid of anything that might cause discomfort while you’re at it. Let’s get rid of slavery - might make people feel uncomfortable. Seems you agree more with DeSantis’s fascist revisionism than you might initially expect.
People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect no matter who they are. But we cannot start playing make believe to protect feelings. A rock is a rock is a rock. If you were born a male then you were born a male end of story.
You can transition after, and people should show you respect and kindness. But forever and for the rest of history you would have been born a male.
It makes me feel so frustrated how this ideology has impregnated the left. We are losing the war against fascism and here we are focusing on absolute absurdities.
Are you claiming birth certificates are not generally accurate? I haven’t personally examined a large number of them - just close family members & girlfriends. Every one I’ve looked at has been accurate.
You can’t be so concerned about accuracy that changing 1 in a thousand is a problem for you, and then use the word ‘generally’. You want ridiculously high precision, or you wouldn’t care if a tiny percentage went back to correct theirs.
Is it so strange that someone expects an official document about someone’s birth to accurately represent that birth?
But is that what we want? Fuck it, let’s change the past and pretend it’s something that’s a little more pleasant. It’s “for a good reason”. To make someone feel better. Get rid of anything that might cause discomfort while you’re at it. Let’s get rid of slavery - might make people feel uncomfortable. Seems you agree more with DeSantis’s fascist revisionism than you might initially expect.
People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect no matter who they are. But we cannot start playing make believe to protect feelings. A rock is a rock is a rock. If you were born a male then you were born a male end of story.
You can transition after, and people should show you respect and kindness. But forever and for the rest of history you would have been born a male.
It makes me feel so frustrated how this ideology has impregnated the left. We are losing the war against fascism and here we are focusing on absolute absurdities.
Yes this is strange to want accuracy where there is none.
Are you claiming birth certificates are not generally accurate? I haven’t personally examined a large number of them - just close family members & girlfriends. Every one I’ve looked at has been accurate.
You can’t be so concerned about accuracy that changing 1 in a thousand is a problem for you, and then use the word ‘generally’. You want ridiculously high precision, or you wouldn’t care if a tiny percentage went back to correct theirs.