Hating your genitalia will soon qualify you as being the opposite sex in NJ.
Via Daily Caller:
Proposed legislation winding its way through the New Jersey state legislature will, if passed, require health department officials to provide new birth certificates to people who decide they want to change genders, regardless of whether they’ve actually undergone any kind of gender reassignment surgery.
Last week, the Garden State’s Senate committee on health and human services approved Senate Bill 2786 by a vote of 6-2 (with one abstention).
The General Assembly already voted 43-27 in favor of the bill back in June.
Essentially, explains The Advocate, the prospective law allows people who receive hormone replacement treatment to get a brand-new birth certificate reflecting a gender they totally didn’t have when they were actually born.
The person seeking the new birth certificate would only need to submit an affidavit signed by a medical provider verifying the hormone treatment. […]
Democrat Joseph Vitale, the bill’s sponsor in the state Senate, told The Star-Ledger that he sponsored the bill because “the world is changing.”