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Fun fact. My son was legally a girl for two days when he was born.
My wife and I had been awake for > 24 hours when he was finally out. His birth was an emergency C-section, that went badly enough the consultant surgeon rushed into the room to help, not in scrubs. To say I was a mentally a mess afterwards is an understatement.
Mum and baby were OK in the end though, after both stayed in hospital for a week on antibiotics.
Bare in mind this form had just been filled in by a nurse who'd had to help me put on his first clothes about five minutes before this.
For two days no one noticed.
Until I took him down to the baby icu one night to get his antibiotics done and the doctor said "Ok, Please lift up her top"
Its 2 in the morning, I'm tired again, I'm thinking maybe I miss heard.
"erm, sure, he's a he though, have you got the right record?" I reply
"Huh? $CHILDS_NAME?"
"Yeah?"
"They are in the system as female"
"Huh?"
"Sorry, Can you take off his nappy, I need to double check this before I can give him the medicine, how did you get this wrong? You'd have been asked to check the form?"
"It was 20 hours of labour followed by an emergency c-section. would you notice a single character wrong in that state?"
"ouch, Ok, lets get this sorted"
And that's how my son went through a gender transition before me. :P
So during that, while they were stitching my wife back together one of the nurses hands me some paper work "Please check this is all correct"
Now keep in mind I am absolutely fucked at this point. Most of my memories from this hour are a jumbled mess even now.
I look at the paper work and it seems fine, his weight is correct, the date is today as far as I remember, great "yeah it looks good"
What I missed was the F in the gender column.