Originally Posted by StevenX:
“No, I think legally transsexuals can be considered the sex they changed to.”
Afraid not. Legally they remain the original sex, and this is a subject of much debate amongst the transexual community I believe.
The basic problem lies with the fact that your sex is legally determined by your birth certificate, and this can not be changed.
Transexuals are lobbying for this to be changed so that birth certificates can be altered. I don't agree with this, as the birth certificate is exactly that, a certificate of your birth, so altering it to make it appear that you were born a different sex is utterly wrong.
What I do think is that there should be some other way of changing the legal sex of an individual, such as a supplementary document which, in concert with the birth certificate, shows that although you were born one sex, you have now legally changed to the other.