New York has hit upon the perfect way to bypass the laws against gay marriage.

Since the laws require marriage to consist of a man and a woman all you have to do is change one person in a same sex couple's gender.

Oh not with anything as intrusive as gender alteration surgery.

Just file a change to your birth certificate and become legally the opposite sex.

N.Y. Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice

Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.

Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.

Honestly you cannot make this up. 

Who cares about anatomy or genetics.  Such old fashioned notions.  Who cares how you were born, you can have a do over.

Be who or what you want to be.  This is truly the age of gender identity and expression.

And I must admit it is a brilliant plan, but one that could have terrible consequences.

After all, if gender can be shifted, then how will they protect affirmative action programs?  How can women get job preferences or small business loans when we don't have any clear idea what a woman is?

The change would lead to many intriguing questions: For example, would a man who becomes a woman be able to marry another man? (Probably.) Would an adoption agency be able to uncover the original sex of a proposed parent? (Not without a court order.) Would a woman who becomes a man be able to fight in combat, or play in the National Football League? (These areas have yet to be explored.)

I wonder if I can chance my ethnicity too?  I have always wanted to be Hawaiian.

Really this is one of the most idiotic ideas ever, but as I said it is essentially brilliant, and as the Feds do not maintain birth records, it could finally be a way to beat the Federal restrictions.

This will be interesting to watch unfold.

Oh don't worry.  I won't try it.  I would make one seriously ugly woman.

H/T Hot Air

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