This item is dated Nov. 7, not April 1.

Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.

Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.

So, will New York City residents be able to change their year of birth too? I mean, some people feel older than their chronological age -- witness the Garth Brooks song "I'm much too young to feel this damn old" -- and others undoubtedly feel younger than their actual age.

I think there would be a lot of 29-year-olds ... year after year.