- An 8-month-old baby in Canada has become the first person to be issued a health card in the country without a gender, BBC reported.
- Baby Searyl Atli was born in November to parent Kori Doty, a non-binary transgender person, at a friend’s home in British Columbia.
- According to CBC, the province initially withheld the child’s health card but relented and sent it with a “U” in the gender box, which could mean undetermined or unassigned.
- Doty wished to omit the baby’s gender so they can determine their own gender when they are older, BBC reported. Read more (7/5/17)