Canada Could Introduce Gender-Neutral ID Cards

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    Would Canada really do this? How many people would really select 'X'? Is this more political correctness run amok?

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat..._could_introduce_gender_neutral_id_cards.html

    Canada Could Introduce Gender-Neutral ID Cards
    By Daniel Politi
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    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates at the annual Pride Festival parade on July 3, 2016 in Toronto.
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    The Canadian government is exploring the possibility of using gender-neutral options on identity cards, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau made the announcement on the same day he made history by becoming the first Canadian prime minister to march in a gay pride parade. "That's part of the great arc of history sweeping toward justice," Trudeau told Canada’s CP24. The prime minister didn’t go into details but said the government was studying how certain jurisdictions had done it in order to figure out the “best way” to go about implementing the change.

    A spokeswoman for the prime minister confirmed the government is looking into making the switch. "We are conducting a review of all the circumstances in which the government requires or produces identity documents in order not to exclude people whose gender identity does not match the binary standard. This could include neutrality in several situations," Andrée-Lyne Hallé wrote in an email to CBC News.

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    Ontario said last week it will introduce gender-neutral driver’s licenses allowing people to select X, instead of M or F, next year. That follows the lead set out by several countries, including Australia and New Zealand, that already allow the use of X to indicate gender.

    Trudeau also said that a prime minister marching in Toronto’s pride parade shouldn’t really be seen as anything special. "I've been coming to this for years and it's sort of frustrating that it has to be a big thing," Trudeau said. "It shouldn't be a big thing that the prime minister is walking in the Pride Parade and from now on, it won't."


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    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am on a different page than the majority of members of Canada's Conservative Party at this time.

    Last month I responded to a message from Canada's Liberal Party.....

    https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Tate4CentralNova/conversations/messages/3619
    3619M. P. Sean Fraser. Fw: We’re fe eling the love. Are you, Dennis?

    Subject: Re: We’re feeling the love. Are you, Dennis?

    Greetings from Nova Scotia.

    I have to admit that although I am now a member of the Conservative Party,
    I am impressed by P. M. Justin Trudeau's political and moral courage.

    G-d bless you in your efforts to make this world a better place.

    Dennis Tate




    http://www.politicalforum.com/gay-l...rs-understand-nde-comments-gay-community.html


    Sincere apologies for taking 5 years to understand NDE comments on Gay Community!
    I personally am ashamed of myself for being a Christian who could not understand this message for about five years!!!!! http://www.near-death.com/andreason.html#a09




    http://www.near-death.com/experiences/notable/christian-andreason.html#a11

    9. What about sexually diverse people?

     

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