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Article: Illinois lawmakers mock sex change bill
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 18, 2007
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State lawmakers mocked sex changes while
debating a bill that would have made it easier to get a new birth
certificate after switching genders in another country.
The legislation came up shortly after a debate about neutering
deer to control their population. Republican Rep. Chapin Rose joked
that the state might start issuing sex-change documents to deer.
Republican Rep. Bill Black said he objects to recognizing non-
surgical sex changes. "Maybe you went somewhere and a voodoo doctor
said you were now a man, where you had been a woman," Black said.
"I've often thought that perhaps I was a female trapped ...