Saskatoon parent fights for gender-neutral birth certificates
Fran Forsberg, a Saskatoon parent of a nine-year-old transgender girl named Renn, said she is excited the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) will take action against the Saskatchewan government following her human rights complaint.
Forsberg filed four years ago on behalf of Renn, and the SHRC found that Renn’s rights were violated by having a gender marker on her birth certificate.
As a result, the SHRC will be applying to the Court of Queen’s Bench to have gender markers removed.
“We have freedom of expression in Canada in our constitution, so you don’t have that freedom of expression if the government is telling you that you have to have a marker for male or female,” Forsberg said. “It really does set us all up for discrimination.”