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Two years ago, Titania McGrath, whose satirical Twitter account regularly skewers the ideological excesses of social-justice culture, suggested that we should remove biological sex from birth certificates altogether to prevent any more mistakes. The joke (obvious to those who follow the culture wars closely, but perhaps obscure to those who don t) was directed at gender activists who insist that male and female designations assigned at birth are misleading (and even dangerous), since they may misrepresent a person s true gender identity that internally felt soul-like quality that supposedly transcends such superficial physical indicia as gonads and genitalia. But the line between satire and sincerity has become blurry on this issue. Last Thursday, the
By Michael W. Chapman | December 22, 2020 | 11:37am EST
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(CNS News) Arguing that sex designation at birth male or female is particularly harmful to intersex and transgender people, the prestigious
New England Journal of Medicine says in a Dec. 17 Perspective that it is time to move sex-identity on people s birth certificates to an area on the form that is not legally identifying. Recognizing that the birth certificate has been an evolving document, with revisions reflecting social change, public interest, and privacy requirements, we believe it is time for another update: sex designations should move below the line of demarcation, state the two medical doctors and one lawyer who wrote the perspective.
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New England Journal of Medicine (
NEJM) embraced “woke” culture in a recent article asserting sex designations on birth certificates “offer no clinical utility” and can even “be harmful for intersex and transgender people.”
The authors of the article, titled “Failed Assignments – Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates,” state, “We believe that it is now time to update the practice of designating sex on birth certificates, given the particularly harmful effects of such designations on intersex and transgender people.”
Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation would not compromise the birth certificate’s public health function but could avoid harm.
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