(2006-11-08) Self Selected Sex New York

NYC is planning to let people select their own sex (changing their birth certificate) without even having a sex-change operation. Meta Data story Of The Day! At the final public hearing for the birth certificate proposal last week, a string of advocates and transsexuals suggested that common definitions of gender, especially its reliance on medical assessments, should be abandoned. They generally praised the city for revisiting its 25-year-old policy that lets people remove the sex designation from their birth certificate if they have had sexual reassignment surgery. Then they demanded more freedom to choose.