What everyone else says, and also the thing about transpeople being given the privilege of changing their own birth certificate. I find this stunning, and not in a good way.
To be able to change their own birth certificiate, issued very shortly after their own birth, so they really would not have known anything about it at the time. Their mum, dad, or both, went to the registry office with the form given by the attending midwife/midwives/doctors, testifying to birth of female child or male child according to physical body presenting at birth. Legal document, I always thought, that form we got from the hospital after the births of our children, and then going to register them with the local births registrar within six weeks of birth.
So transpeople want the extra right, that no-one else has, to scrub out and falsify this detail of their actual physical sex at birth on their birth certificate; even though the birth certificate is meant, at the time of birth, to be an accurate record of that new human, same as their day and time and place of birth.
Gender has fuck all to do with the process. A baby is born and registered. That baby is either female or male. No other options at all.
And yet, this factual process must now be overturned and changed.
Blimey.
Birth records need to be factual for all kinds of reasons. Subsequent medical treatment. Equality monitoring, even in nurseries and primary schools. Subsequent children knowing who their mum and dad may be.
Lots of reasons for knowing accurate sex, rather then a legal lie. Gender? Might as well put Star Sign.
I really don't see why a legal lie should be tolerated at all. Especially when the legal lie that men are now women, means that women are more disadvantaged than men by this; it means that women have no same-sex provisions away from men. And this will lead to bad consequences for women, girls, children.