(Toronto lawyer Susan Ursel has won a fight for her client known, as T.A., to have a non-binary sex designation on birth certificates in Manitoba. She was is in Winnipeg for the case earlier this year. (Austin Grabish/CBC)
Trans person ‘thrilled’ by decision, says it will have far-reaching implications for non-binary people
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CBC News
November 10, 2019
The Manitoba government discriminated against a transgender person when it refused to allow a sex designation that wasn’t male or female on a birth certificate, an independent human rights adjudicator has ruled.
The government must start allowing non-binary designations within 180 days, according to the ruling.
In a decision written Nov. 5, adjudicator Dan Manning ordered the government to pay $50,000 in damages to T.A., a trans pangender person who filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission in 2015.
“I am of the view that the policy of the respondent constitutes systemic direct discrimination,” Manning said.
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