Transgender rights in Canada , including procedures for changing registered gender and protections from discrimination, vary among provinces and territories. Canadian Temporary Residents cannot use this procedure, and must instead apply to their passport's country of issuance for a change of registered gender before IRCC can amend their status document.
Temporary Residents, Permanent Residents, and Citizens born outside Canada may also elect to amend their registered gender through a provincial process instead, if they live in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick and have resided there for at least three months. Only Citizens may provincially amend their registered gender in Quebec. The Passport Programme offers an "X" gender option on passports as of the 4th June Following a court ruling that struck down the existing legislation and its surgery requirements as unconstitutional, [4] [5] the government of Alberta modified the Vital Statistics Information Regulation in Instead, the applicant must submit a "statement confirming that the person identifies with and is maintaining the gender identity that corresponds with the requested amendment to the sex on the record of birth," as well as a letter from a physician or psychologist attesting that the amendment is appropriate.
Legal change of gender is accessible to minors; this requires the parents' or guardians' consent, although this can be waived by court order or if the minor is emancipated, married, or a parent. In British Columbia the requirement for surgery to change the birth certificate gender marker was removed in Non-binary B.
Doty has filed a legal challenge. A change of registered gender in Manitoba is available to persons born there. As of the 1st February , there exists no requirement for trans individuals to have undergone gender confirmation surgery. In April , a bill passed the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick to add gender identity or expression to the human rights laws and to allow gender changes without the required surgery.
Persons born in Newfoundland and Labrador have been able to have the gender designation on their government issued ID changed since the adoption of a new Vital Statistics Act [15] in Initially, that right was available only to those who had undergone gender confirmation surgery, but that requirement was removed following the December decision of a Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Board of Inquiry [16] [17] on complaints filed with the Human Rights Commission from two trans women.
