Talk:Transgender rights in Canada

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Question

Many provinces seem to require "sexual reassignment surgery". What exactly is meant by that? Do transmen have to have genital reassignment surgery, too? If not, it should be noted. -- AlexR 20:30, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Essentially, the gist of what I'm hearing from the various provincial authorities is that what is required is not SRS per se, but that a physician certify that the applicant is anatomically of the sex to which the certificate should be changed. (This is explicitly what the BC Vital Stats person told me.) What's required for that, therefore, would be basically what you could get the doctors to sign off on. - Montréalais 18:17, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Ontario requires a surgery "in the direction of" the new sex. This is apparently to allow transmen to get a legal change of gender after only a top surgery, although I've known a transwoman who got the legal change of gender following a tracheal shave. The surgeon who performed the surgery and signed off on it was apparently vague about the exact nature of the surgery. Yelyos 21:11, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

NOR

"The information for these entries comes from correspondence with the provincial and territorial departments of vital statistics during August 2004." Does this violate WP:NOR? Carolynparrishfan 15:26, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Quebec

Changes in the Quebec section. Quebec changed my gender even though I am an Ontario resident. I am trying to get them to issue a letter to use as a reference, however my own experience will have to do for now. User:Combatbootboy 18:16, 4 October 2006

Ontario

If a trans person living in Ontario but is not born in Ontario and thus do not have an Ontario birth certificate, they still CANNOT change their gender pior to sex reassignement surgery. You need an Ontario birth certificate in order to chagne your gender. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.210.130 (talk) 18:59, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Replying for the record - this is a factually incorrect statement, as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada permit changes of legal gender on federal foundational identity documents, for individuals born anywhere within or without Canada. 緑里郁子 (talk) 16:53, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Nova Scotia

I have updated the Nova Scotia section to take into account the changes that came into force this week. Feel free to edit it further for readability, brevity or to add any additional info that you may have. --Devin Murphy (talk) 19:31, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Is the "LGBT Discrimination Table" NPOV?

The use of green check marks to show legislation has been passed, and red X marks to show legislation has not been passed, does not seem to me to be neutral in tone. When my teachers would put check marks on my work, it had a quite different meaning than X marks, particularly if the X was in red. Both the use of the symbols and the colours suggests that the WP article favours the passage of the legislation, which is not a neutral approach. I think it would be better to replace the check marks with "yes" and the X marks with "no", without any colour coding. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 09:36, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

This is an article about transgender rights in Canada

As this is an article about transgender rights in Canada and not also an article about LGB rights in Canada, I feel the "Discrimination protections" section ought to be rewritten because it currently appears to be mostly a cut and passed from the LGBT rights in Canada article. Rewritten to reflect how these protections impact transgender people. I feel this kind of rewrite is important because not all transgender folks would be impacted the same by theses protections, as not all transgender folks are also Lesbian ,Gay or Bi, some are instead Heterosexual. Thoughts? --Devin Kira Murphy (talk) 20:46, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

This doesn't make sense to me

"the province of Quebec became the first jurisdiction in the world larger than a city or county..." implies that a province is larger than a country...? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilbaAtWikipedia (talk • contribs) 00:09, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Source which could possibly be helpful

I would like to make all other editors aware of this recently (as of April 2022) released information that could possibly be helpful to improve and/or expand the page. It was published by Statistics Canada on 27 April 2022.

• Canada is the first country to provide census data on transgender and non-binary people

Helper201 (talk) 08:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Table Overview inconsistencies

The table color coding is inconsistent and no legend is given. e.g. "Supporting certification from a prescribed professional required" can be green in one cell, but red in another. The color coding appears to be subjective. Ragnarino (talk) 18:45, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Sections Pronouns in Schools, Healthcare and Sports

I have 2 issues with these sections. One is that the opinions of the Alberta government are just opinions, which are just opinions. I don't believe they should be included in this article. The information may have a place in Articles like [[Danielle Smith]], this is not the place for that. I also believe that since the information is not future proof and will need to be updated making its inclusion wrong. To be clear I am not opposed to including any future notable actions taken by the Alberta or any other canadian government related to transgender rights being included in the article, I don't believe people's opinions, even if they are from a government warrant inclusion on their own.

But if I am wrong, and this information should be included in the article, I believe Sections Pronouns in Schools, Healthcare and Sports should be merged together into a single section. I also believe more information about these opinions would be needed to maintain a neutral point of view as the omission of other people's opinions only the opinions of Danielle Smith is not neutral. Legend of 14 (talk) 07:53, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

The plans/opinions of the Alberta government have been removed. Legend of 14 (talk) 19:30, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

With regards to the latest edit of these sections, that was done because it breached existing consensus, not only just because it lacked consensus. I'm sorry, I didn't explain my reasoning good in the edit summary, I will try to be more clear in the future. Legend of 14 (talk) 16:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Useful1: Legend of 14 (talk) 17:06, 25 March 2024 (UTC)