Congratulations!

I am looking forward to that happening some day. However, my peculiar situation (Canadian citizen, born in Scotland, living/working in the US temporarily) has led to a lot of very peculiar legal and bureaucratic complications. So, it is likely to take a while and be rather expensive and time consuming. I start to wonder: just why do we even have to do this? What difference does it make to a gov't bureaucracy whether someone is male or female, is named Susan or Stan?

Michaella