Changing Legal Gender Assignment in Canada - Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

As per the Vital Statistics Act:

Duty of Registrar where sex change:

25 (1) Where a person has had his anatomical sex structure changed to a sex other than that which appears on his birth certificate the Registrar on production to him of

(a) two affidavits of two duly qualified medical practitioners, each affidavit deposing that the anatomical sex of the person has changed; and

(b) evidence satisfactory to him as to the identity of the person,

shall

(c) if the sex of the person is registered in the Province, cause a notation of the change to be made on the registry thereof; and

(d) if the sex of the person is registered outside the Province, transmit to the person in charge of the registration of births in the jurisdiction in which the person is registered a copy of the proof of change of sex produced to the Registrar.

(2) Every birth, marriage or domestic partnership certificate issued after the making of a notation under this Section shall be issued as if the registration had been made of the sex as changed. R.S., c. 494, s. 25; 2001, c. 5, s. 42.


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