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-| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Currently, Canada doesn't allow people to get passports with a nonbinary gender marker, but politicians are working toward this.<ref>RJ Vandrish. "Passport Canada rejects sex-unspecified passports." October 4, 2014. Daily Xtra (news). http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/news-and-ideas/news/passport-canada-rejects-sex-unspecified-passports-93929</ref> Canadian citizens can also do activism to ask for this option to be introduced: [https://web.archive.org/web/20161108195146/http://chrismilloy.ca/2012/02/how-to-apply-for-sex-unspecified-canadian-passport-in-protest/ How to: Apply for "sex unspecified" Canadian passport in protest]. Beginning in June 2016, the government of Ontario started issuing all new health cards without an indication of sex or gender. In early 2017, Ontario Driver's licences will have an "X" option for sex. <ref>https://news.ontario.ca/mgs/en/2016/06/gender-on-health-cards-and-drivers-licences.html</ref>
+| style="background-color:#9ff;" |  As of August 31st, 2017, Canada will be able to add notes to passports indicating gender should be recognized as "X" while maintaining an "M" or "F" marker <ref name="ca-statment">https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2017/08/minister_hussen_announcesmajorstepforwardingenderequalitybymakin.html</ref>. The government intends to have full support of the "X" marker in the future <ref name="ca-statment" />. Ontario Driver's licences have an "X" option for sex. <ref>https://news.ontario.ca/mgs/en/2016/06/gender-on-health-cards-and-drivers-licences.html</ref>
 | style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Transgender persons can change their legal gender and name after completion of medical intervention in most provinces and territories (not required in Ontario, British Columbia, and Manitoba).<ref>Northwest Territories Human Rights Act, S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.</ref><ref>"Ontario passes law to protect transgender people" CBC News June 13, 2012. Accessed June 13, 2012 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/06/13/ontario-gender-equality.html</ref><ref>http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page?id=C53953157EE344A681EFD28325B526F4</ref><ref>http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/change_of_sex_designation.html</ref>
 |  Explicit anti-discrimination protections for transgender people only in Alberta, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario, implicit elsewhere.