People who undergo the process of legally changing their gender do not first have to undergo surgery to change their genitals.
Consideration in each clause of Bill 2 (New window)proposing an impressive family law reform, began on Tuesday with the downgrade announced by Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, in terms of gender and gender identity.
In his opening remarks, the Minister confirmed that the amendments would amend the controversial articles included in the bill filed on October 21.
It therefore removed from the law the need to undergo genital surgery in order to have the right to change the gender assignment in official state documents.
In fact, initially there should be two mentions: gender and gender, which may be different from each other, which raises the anger of the LGBTQ community, which is disturbed by the idea of seeing transgender people forced to disclose their situation in all circumstances.
We come today with concrete solutions to the concerns you have raisedsaid the Minister initially to members of this community, conducting a detailed study of his bill, a robust and complex 116-page document containing more than 360 articles on various delicate topics , including gender and gender identity.
There are only four weeks of parliamentary work left to study and approve this bill, which can typically require months of work, due to its complexity and scope.
Therefore, elected officials will have to work twice as hard to achieve the goal during the current mandate.
The need for surgery to change the gender assignment will be completely eliminated of Bill 2, the minister argued.
Ultimately, therefore, there will be only one entry in civil status documents, to avoid situations of unwanted disclosure.
Bill 2 provides a broad net and discusses several topics, including the recognition of non-binary persons and parents, the administration of surrogate mothers, the rules of filiation, the presumption of paternity for de facto spouses, domestic violence and parenthood, information disclosed to adoptions and recognition of the rights of the child born to a surrogate mother to know its origin.
Source: Radio-Canada
