Samson, the son of a wealthy family has always claimed that since childhood, he was not a boy. He played with the girls and did not mingle with the boys. After finishing his course at a university in the Philippines, he went to the US to take up his masteral and doctorate degrees. He consulted several doctors of the possibility of sex transmission from that of male to that of a female. The sex transmission was done in Thailand and which was certified as successful by a medical expert in Manila, hence, he claimed to be a woman. He filed a petition for correction of entry of his record of birth from male to female and his name from Samson to Delailah as he was marrying his fiancé. The lower court granted the petition. Is the order of the court correct?
A) The order is correct because it is the right to a person to choose his/her gender.
B) The order is correct because a person's status can be changed thru the intervention of medical science due to the advances in science and technology.
C) The order is correct as there would be no adverse effects, but rather, it would redound to the benefit of Samson.
D) The order is not correct because it wreaks havoc to the marriage law. create confusion in the civil registry and change of sex is not a ground to change one's name.
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