You are seeing one of the basic ways that anyone can use to fight any kind of paperwork against them, from government or other. It's called ACCEPTANCE. If you don't accept the paperwork, you are not a party to the case. You have 3 days to return the paperwork, but do it fast. --- To strengthen your position, you might file with the court, a doc that expresses your desire to get injunctive relief from being charged as the person on the original paperwork, so that you are not attacked by law enforcement for mistaken identity, since you formally didn't accept the position of the party named on the original paperwork (possibly a subpoena, or an indictment). Your strength in your doc for relief is your claim of being a man/woman, whereas the original doc did not claim this. "i, YOUR NAME (even if it looks exactly like the name on the doc), man/woman, have not accepted..., and wish relief from harassment of the person named on the doc..."