Talk:Changing legal gender assignment 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)

"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)

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.