Tribunal rules that trans people who don't want surgery exist!

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Genital surgery isn't required for a man to be legally recognized as a woman, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal says.

Under current law, anyone who wants a change in sex designation on his or her birth certificate must first produce a certificate signed by two medical practitioners affirming that "transsexual surgery" was carried out.

In a decision issued on April 11, the human rights tribunal said the Ontario government must now drop that requirement.

The government has 180 days to "revise the criteria for changing sex designation on a birth registration, up to the point of undue hardship, so as to remove the discriminatory effect of the current system on transgendered persons," wrote Sheri Price, a vice-chair for the tribunal.

- "Legal sex change doesn't require surgery, tribunal says", CBC News