• Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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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      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).

      Do they use drunkards to fill out important registration forms in the US?

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        There’s something like thirty boxes of information on the thing, and all the others are correct. I suspect whoever was typing it (on a typewriter - this was pre-computers) had several in a row that really were male babies and just got that stuck in their head.

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      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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        They are also the reason why we are in this situation in the first play. Angry old lady energy serves both justice and tyranny.