After successfully lobbying provincial and federal governments to make it easier to amend sex designations on key identity documents, transgender Canadians are now pushing for another change: to abolish gender references altogether from birth certificates.
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to review complaints filed by the Trans Alliance Society and a handful of transgender and intersex individuals, who argue that doctors should stop assigning the sex of a baby based on a quick inspection of the baby’s genitals at birth when there’s a possibility they may identify under a different gender, or no gender, years later.
“Birth certificates (may) give false information about people and characterize them in a way that is actually wrong, that assumes to be right, and causes people ”¦ actual harm,” said Morgane Oger, a transgender woman in Vancouver and chair of the society.
“It’s considered true and infallible when it isn’t.”
Read it all from the National Post.
Amazing how people will fly the flag of “science tells us” when they want one thing, and those same people ignore science when they want another. I would think it was established that science tells us that the human body and all the intricate bits that make it run are quite dependent on whether one is XX and XY and not what gender we pretend to be. We can lie to our neighbors and our doctors and ourselves, but not to reality. But, then, this is a brave new world we live in and perhaps even science and reality are words redefined (and redefined) under Newspeak.