The provincial government has introduced policy changes to create more inclusive birth certificates.
The changes will allow individuals to choose non-binary in addition to male or female when applying for a change of sex designation under the Vital Statistics Act.
In a November 2019 decision, the Manitoba Human Rights Commission required the province to recognize and implement policies to allow for non-binary sex designations by May 2, 2020.
Also, last November, a human rights adjudicator ordered the province to pay $50,000 to a transgender individual, for denying their request to replace the sex designation on their birth certificate with an “X”.
The Manitoba government has taken the additional step of introducing a legislative change that would remove the requirement to display a sex designation on birth and death certificates.
Finance Minister Scott Fielding added this legislation hasn’t passed yet.
