Clayton Co. woman asked to prove gender to fix birth certificate mistake [View all]
A Clayton County woman's birth certificate has listed her as a man for the last 37 years, but she didn't notice the mistake until now. Nakia Grimes says she was horrified when state workers told her she'd need a doctor's note proving her gender to get it corrected.
Grimes told FOX 5 she never noticed the "x" in the field on her birth certificate that marks her as a male.
"You only look at the name, the date, and the year," Grimes told FOX 5. "I've never seen that."
Grimes said she never really had a need for the document until she prepared to renew her Georgia driver's license, but new rules mean she needed a copy. That's where the problems started. With her 37th birthday approaching, Grimes went to the state's Vital Records Services.
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