What exactly is a birth cert? Non-Adoptees would say it records all the official information of your birth. Adoptees know better. Birth Certs can be changed.
Up until recently I was OK with my BC. I mean, I have found my bparents, and I know the real info.
I thought of my bc as a useful legal document showing that I am my parents daughter.
Now, on the radio I heard a discussion of transexuals wanting/getting amended birth certificates. Now, this is NOT a debate on if they should get new ones or not, it is just something that started me thinking.
I mean, if I do a legal name change (like when I got married) I do not change my BC. I was not born with my married name. I can kinda justify the adoptee BC because it is USUALLY a child, and this gives them a concrete connection with their parents.
But a transexual? Being a female for 40 years, then having the BC changed to say male? For some reason, this upsets me. Not because of their changing it per se, but becuase it feels like you can change it to say anything.
As an adult I can have an adult adoption, and get a new bc today. At 39 years old, I can change my bc.
OK, there is no point to this post. I am rambling.
This is just making me sad - I feel like the BC is a fraud.
It doesn't help that my FIL passed away with his son present at 11:30 at night, but the nurses didn't respond the the room til 12:05, and now FIL death cert is, as far as we are concerned, WRONG. It says he passed on Sunday. He didn't. He passed on Saturday.
Are any legal documents actually true???
