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| [[Recognition (Canada)|Canada]]
| [[Recognition (Canada)|Canada]]
| style="background-color:#edf;" |  Canada intends to have full support for "X" markers on passports "soon" <ref name="change-sex-ca">http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/passport/apply/new/change-sex.asp</ref>. Interim measures are in place which allow applicants to freely choose an "M" or "F" marker and the option to add an observation indicating the passport bearer's sex should be read as unspecified <ref name="change-sex-ca" />. Several provinces issue birth certificates and other identification with "X".
| style="background-color:#edf;" |  Canada intends to have full support for "X" markers on passports "soon" <ref name="change-sex-ca">http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/passport/apply/new/change-sex.asp</ref>. Interim measures are in place which allow applicants to freely choose an "M" or "F" marker and the option to add an observation indicating the passport bearer's sex should be read as unspecified <ref name="change-sex-ca" />. Several provinces issue birth certificates and other identification with "X".
| style="background-color:#E85;" |  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>
| style="background-color:#0C0;" |  Requirements vary from province to province. Generally minimally medical intervention is required.  
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| style="background-color:#0C0;" | Explicit anti-discrimination protections for transgender people only in Alberta, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario, implicit elsewhere.
| style="background-color:#0C0;" | Explicit anti-discrimination protections for transgender people only in Alberta, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario, implicit elsewhere.
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