# SAVANAH HERNANDEZ: Parents of LGBT kids believe biological sex should not be recorded on birth certificates

By Savanah Hernandez · Published 2023-06-25 · News & Analysis › Faith & Family · https://humanevents.com/news/savanah-hernandez-parents-of-lgbt-kids-believe-biological-sex-should-not-be-recorded-on-birth-certificates

> Back in 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) recommended taking gender off of public birth certificates.

Back in 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) recommended [taking gender](https://thepostmillennial.com/equal-pay-today-group-claims-theres-a-wage-gap-in-america-and-its-worse-for-lgbtq-people) off of public birth certificates. I went to ask parents and members of the LGBTQ community what their thoughts on this issue were, especially since this community has been at the forefront of eradicating the [biological differences](https://thepostmillennial.com/media-matters-lgbtq-director-accidentally-admits-book-she-and-chelsea-clinton-want-on-school-shelves-is-pornographic) between men and women.

In 2021, the [AMA](https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2021-05/j21-handbook-addendum-ref-cmte-d.pdf) shared that [gender](https://thepostmillennial.com/hate-hoax-man-who-claimed-to-be-victim-of-san-diego-gay-bashing-that-left-him-with-burns-actually-was-the-perpetrator-of-beating-of-pregnant-woman-police-say) needed to be removed from birth certificates because “assigning sex using a binary variable and placing it on the public portion of the birth certificate perpetuates a view that it is immutable and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity.”

Asking attendees of Arlington’s Pride Parade their thoughts on this, one attendee who identified as a lesbian shared that, “gender doesn’t really do much, it doesn’t really matter.” Another responded that “a baby is a baby at the end of the day,” she then went on to share that, “the terms assigned female at birth and assigned male at birth can be harmful in general.”

A mother, who identifies as “pansexual” shared that, regarding her three-year-old, “If my child doesn’t have to have the gender on his birth certificate, that’d be f\*cking awesome.”

She then went on to share that if he wants to become a girl later on, “I’m so for it.”

“I’ll tell him what hospital do you want to go to right now?” she finished.

“I think as a whole, society just needs to stop prioritizing the sex of their child,” one girl who identified as a “trans-man” shared. She then went on to use an example of a parent who thinks their baby boy will remain a boy, “and then we’ll have a baby boy forever, no maybe she’s trans or maybe your little girl is going to grow up and you’re going to have to have a son later,” she stated.

Most of the attendees interviewed agreed that not gendering a child at birth would be beneficial, as assigning them their gender at birth could be “harmful,” a trend that has already been gaining traction for the past couple of years.

Back in 2018, NBC put out a [segment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfzL8BrNSLQ) titled, [“Raising Theybies”](https://www.tpusa.com/live/60-minutes-australia-promotes-they-bies-gender-neutral-infants) in which two parents decided to raise their children as “theybies”, using “they/them/their” pronouns to let their children, “decide for themselves when, if and how they want to identify as a gender,” per the children’s father.

*This* [*piece first appeared*](https://www.tpusa.com/live/lgbtq-parents-agree-with-taking-gender-off-of-birth-certificates-for-kids) *on TPUSA.*