A 37-year-old Georgia woman was in for a big surprise when she picked up a copy of her birth certificate she needed to renew her driver's license.
It listed her as a man.
Fox 5 News in Atlanta reported the story of Nakia Grimes, who told the station that she never knew the document listed her as male.
"You only look at the name, the date, and the year," Grimes told FOX 5. "I've never seen that."
Grimes told the Atlanta news station that she never had a use for her birth certificate in her first 37 years of life, but due to new requirements in Georgia for renewing driver's licenses, she needed it to prove her identity.
She went to Georgia's Vital Records Services to pick up a copy of the document, and that's where the trouble started.
Grimes noticed the "x" marking her as male.
"When I went to retrieve my birth certificate, I let her know the sex status is wrong," Grimes told Fox 5. "I'm a woman, was born a woman."
But state workers told her she needed a notarized doctor's note and a Pap test to prove she was female.
Fox 5 reporter Kaitlin Pratt went to Georgia's Vital Records Services on Grimes' behalf and the director promised to make things right. She told Pratt that what happened wasn't protocol.
The issue was resolved when state records employees looked up the birth certificate of Grimes' son, Zion, and changed the mother's sex on the certificate to female.
Michael Smith is an intern in the news section of DeseretNews.com. A 2013 graduate of the University of Utah, he will be attending Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism in the fall.