Birth Certificate Was Thirty Years Delayed
Doctor/Physician, Editors' Choice, Hospital, Ignoring & Inattentive, Indiana, USA | Healthy
| June 10, 2019
(Some thirty-plus years ago, my mother is giving birth. The doctor has just come in from doing a hysterectomy and is not paying the best of attention. Fortunately, all is going well, and my brother is born safely. Then, this happens.)
Doctor: “It’s a girl!”
Dad: *takes one look* “That’s no girl.”
(Punchline: last summer, my brother came out as my transgender sister.)
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