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Employment Social Development Canada and Birth Certificate

Christin Milloy: Currently, someone who wants to make such a change has to provide a birth certificate or immigration document showing they have changed their sex designation from birth, according to Huffington Post Canada. Christin Milloy argues that Employment and Social Development Canada doesn't need to collect sex designation information. Employment and Social Development Canada says, among other things, social insurance number holders wouldn't need a new birth certificate to change the sex designation on their social insurance record. Since 2015, the department has allowed people to make the change in cases where a revised birth certificate isn't available. Milloy has argued the department doesn't need to collect the information at all. That happened just as the department headed to mediation at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal after failing to easily allow Christin Milloy to change the designation on her record to female. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.