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There's something like thirty boxes of information on the thing, and all the others are correct. I suspect whoever was typing it (on a typewriter - this was pre-computers) had several in a row that really were male babies and just got that stuck in their head.
How difficult is it to correct an obviously wrong record in the US?
Depends on how braindead the clerk is.
When you're doing it matters a lot too. It was much easier before, but now that gender is a huge political football the process has been mucked up
Used to not be a problem. But people transitioning use the same process to amend their records, so now there's roadblocks.
They actually sent the school an amended certificate, and a doctor's note explaining everything. The school just isn't satisfied.