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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s genitals at birth when there\u2019s a possibility they may identify under a different gender, or no gender, years later.<\/p>\n
\u201cBirth 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 \u201d\u00a6 actual harm,\u201d\u009d said Morgane Oger, a transgender woman in Vancouver and chair of the society.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s considered true and infallible when it isn\u2019t.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n