Kori Doty91裸聊视频檚 eight-month-old child has received a health card with a 91裸聊视频楿91裸聊视频� (presumably for unspecified or unknown) where the child91裸聊视频檚 gender would normally be shown.

A news release from the Gender Free ID Coalition states that Doty, who lives in the Slocan Valley, is the Applicant in a judicial review of the decision by the Vital Statistics Agency to refuse a birth certificate for their child. Doty91裸聊视频檚 child Searyl was born in B.C., but outside of the medical system, so there was no medical genital inspection when the child was born.

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The denial of a birth certificate initially also meant that Doty, themselves a non-binary trans parent, could not get a medical number for their child. But MSP relented. One day without explanation Searyl91裸聊视频檚 health card (shown below) arrived in the mail, gender 91裸聊视频淯91裸聊视频�.

Doty will argue in the upcoming judicial review that requiring a gender marker on a birth certificate amounts to a violation of Searyl91裸聊视频檚 rights as a Canadian citizen to life, liberty and security of the person, to freedom of expression, and to equality under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Gender expression has been a protected ground in BC91裸聊视频檚 Human Rights Code for a year. and has just been added as a ground to the Canadian Human Rights Act.

91裸聊视频淚 do not gender my child,91裸聊视频� says Doty. 91裸聊视频淚t is up to Searyl to decide how they identify, when they are old enough to develop their own gender identity. I am not going to foreclose their choices based on an arbitrary assignment of gender at birth based on an inspection of their genitals.91裸聊视频�

The Gender Free I.D. Coalition is supporting Doty in this case, as well as a companion human rights case. Both cases seek to halt the practice of specifying gender on birth certificates.

A similar case against all gendered documents in the Saskatchewan will be heard on July 7 in Regina.