Nancy Polikoff  What Thomas Beatie Doesn't Understand  Filed By
Nancy Polikoff | November 20, 2008 11:00 AM | comments  Filed
in: Living, Marriage Equality, Transgender & Intersex Tags:
adoption rights, Barbara Walters, birth certificates, Thomas
Beatie, transgender parent  I watched Thomas and Nancy Beatie on
Barbara Walters last week. They described their struggle with
the state of Oregon over how they would be identified on their
child's birth certificate. They want Thomas listed as the father
and Nancy listed as the mother. The hospital insisted that
Thomas be listed as the mother, but eventually the state issued
a birth certificate with Thomas and Nancy listed as "parent" and
"parent."  They are still fighting to get Thomas designated as
the father. Give me a break! Parent and parent is the
designation that should go on all birth certificates! What makes
this an insult? Yes, if the state insisted on listing Thomas as
the mother, that I would have a problem with. But a gender
neutral term?  And then there