On Thursday, a Saskatchewan judge ruled that the province must amend current policy to allow people of all ages to change or remove the gender on their birth certificates. Saskatchewan is the first jurisdiction in the country in which a court has ordered the government to allow the removal of gender markers on birth certificates, according to the provincial human rights commission. Members of the Forsberg family, the Dyck family and lawyer Larry Kowalchuk were all smiles after a court ordered the province to allow the removal of gender from birth certificates. Parents representing gender diverse youth had argued that Saskatchewan's The Vital Statistics Act, 2009, violated the provincial Human Rights Code on the basis of sex and gender identity. The Saskatchewan Human Rights Comission says transgender and non-binary gender people face discrimination in housing, employment and travel because of a mismatch between their outward gender presentation and their government issued ID.

Source: CBC News May 25, 2018 21:40 UTC