• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    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?

    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      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.

          • Taldan@lemmy.world
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            26 minutes ago

            When you’re doing it matters a lot too. It was much easier before, but now that gender is a huge political football the process has been mucked up