Entry #15258: Right to change legal gender in Nunavut

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RegionNunavut
IssueRight to change legal gender
StatusLegal, but requires surgery
Start DateApr 1, 1999
End DateMar 2015
DescriptionUntil 2015, Nunavut required surgery for legal gender recognition. It is unknown when Nunavat enacted gender recognition since its division from the Northwest Territories, which had no legal recognition at the time of 1999, but in 2015, it had apparently required surgery until an amendment passed removing the requirement.
Sourceshttps://uphere.ca/articles/it-felt-so-me
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-creation-of-nunavut


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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Adding start date, albeit a fuzzy one.

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Start Date(unknown)Apr 1, 1999
DescriptionUntil 2015, Nunavut required surgery for legal gender recognition.Until 2015, Nunavut required surgery for legal gender recognition. It is unknown when Nunavat enacted gender recognition since its division from the Northwest Territories, which had no legal recognition at the time of 1999, but in 2015, it had apparently required surgery until an amendment passed removing the requirement.
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Until 2015, Nunavut required surgery for legal gender recognition. It is unknown when Nunavat enacted gender recognition since its division from the Northwest Territories, which had no legal recognition at the time of 1999, but in 2015, it had apparently required surgery until an amendment passed removing the requirement.
Sourceshttps://uphere.ca/articles/it-felt-so-mehttps://uphere.ca/articles/it-felt-so-me
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-creation-of-nunavut
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https://uphere.ca/articles/it-felt-so-me https://uphere.ca/articles/it-felt-so-me https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-creation-of-nunavut

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StatusLegal, but requires surgery
Start Date(unknown)
End DateMar 2015
DescriptionUntil 2015, Nunavut required surgery for legal gender recognition.
Sourceshttps://uphere.ca/articles/it-felt-so-me