(April 26, 2015 at 9:37 pm)Napoléon Wrote: This is where I think it's stupid then. Shouldn't birth certificates instead list these changes as... well changes, instead of just blanket saying "this person was born a boy", even though they weren't?
They could I suppose, but I think you are reading too much into birth certificates. They are quite simply a certificate of a live birth; that is to say, a document which states that the person the document is about was born on a specific date. That date doesn't change, and that's really the most important piece of information a birth certificate holds.
My guess is it's easier to just change a small piece of information on a birth certificate than to have to redesign birth certificates themselves. The original birth certificate isn't going to change; there will in all likelihood be a copy of the birth certificate stored by some government agency which has accurate details *at the time of birth* on it, and there will also be documentation which tracks the sex change, name changes, etc.
