Thursday, May 26, 2016

Times have changed since we last changed our address three years ago...

I googled how to change our address for our drivers'  licences,  etc and this came up on how to change Name,  Address,  and now the category of Gender.  Well,  why not.  Interesting that B.C. is the first jurisdiction to do this.  I would probably have guessed Quebec first and Ontario second.

Gender
B.C. is the first jurisdiction in Canada to revise its legislation to remove the requirement for transsexual surgery in order for an individual to change their gender designation on their birth certificate.
Amendments to the Vital Statistics Act replace the previous requirement with a new process that allows citizens to change their gender designation on their government-issued identification to reflect their identified gender.