Canadian parent raising child as gender-neutral.

ceadaoin. · 07-07-2017 1:03pm

Grayson wrote: »

But (and I'm just making this for the sake of argument) gender is one of the few things that is on a birth cert. It doesn't contain any other information about the child except name. Everything else is about the parents. Is there actually a need for gender to be on the cert at all?
If it wasn't for the political ramifications it would make no difference if it was there or not.

How is recording sex (not gender) on a birth certificate only about political ramifications? Health professionals need to know the sex of a child, all the growth/height charts are based on sex. And obviously, as the child gets older this will become even more relevant. Certain conditions might be more likely depending on sex for example.

And that's before the child even starts school where they would want to know whether they are male or female. Although given that this person gave birth without medical assistance and refuses to have her child examined by a doctor, I doubt they would even be going to school tbh.

Whether this parent agrees or not, biological sex is a reality and can never change. Whatever gender the child decides they identify as in the future is irrelevant at birth.