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Title: Alberta Gives New Birth Certificate To Transgender Boy
Post by: suzifrommd on June 18, 2014, 04:46:47 PM
Post by: suzifrommd on June 18, 2014, 04:46:47 PM
Alberta Gives New Birth Certificate To Transgender Boy
Posted: 06/15/2014 8:46 pm EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/16/alberta-birth-certificate-transgender_n_5497632.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/16/alberta-birth-certificate-transgender_n_5497632.html)
Wren Kauffman was presented with the new document on Sunday in Edmonton during a Pride festival brunch hosted by the city's mayor.
The province's culture minister, Heather Klimchuk, made the presentation.
A spokesperson for the minister says the new certificate simply has a "M" instead of an "F."
Kauffman had filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission over the inability to change the sex on his birth certificate.
Alberta law states that transgender persons must have reassignment surgery before they can change the sex on their birth certificates, but Premier Dave Hancock said in April that the surgery requirement will be dropped.
Wren, who was born a girl, had said it was stressful being listed as female.
A week after Hancock made the announcement, a judge ruled that the Alberta law dealing with birth certificates violates the rights of transgender people.
Posted: 06/15/2014 8:46 pm EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/16/alberta-birth-certificate-transgender_n_5497632.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/16/alberta-birth-certificate-transgender_n_5497632.html)
Wren Kauffman was presented with the new document on Sunday in Edmonton during a Pride festival brunch hosted by the city's mayor.
The province's culture minister, Heather Klimchuk, made the presentation.
A spokesperson for the minister says the new certificate simply has a "M" instead of an "F."
Kauffman had filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission over the inability to change the sex on his birth certificate.
Alberta law states that transgender persons must have reassignment surgery before they can change the sex on their birth certificates, but Premier Dave Hancock said in April that the surgery requirement will be dropped.
Wren, who was born a girl, had said it was stressful being listed as female.
A week after Hancock made the announcement, a judge ruled that the Alberta law dealing with birth certificates violates the rights of transgender people.
Title: Re: Alberta Gives New Birth Certificate To Transgender Boy
Post by: HoneyStrums on June 18, 2014, 04:51:33 PM
Post by: HoneyStrums on June 18, 2014, 04:51:33 PM
:)
Title: Re: Alberta Gives New Birth Certificate To Transgender Boy
Post by: Shana-chan on June 19, 2014, 04:30:57 PM
Post by: Shana-chan on June 19, 2014, 04:30:57 PM
Quote from: suzifrommd on June 18, 2014, 04:46:47 PMNow, if only the rest of the world would get that message as well!
A week after Hancock made the announcement, a judge ruled that the Alberta law dealing with birth certificates violates the rights of transgender people.