Beth-Lock
04-01-2013, 01:31 AM
It appears that the changes made to the law or etc. to change the gender designation on a birth certificate for persons born in Ontario, have not just added extra grounds, to enable someone to achieve that without GRS/SRS but have replaced the old rules and requirements.
Since it is a more complicated thing to prove the need to have the gender marker on your birth certificate if you have not had SRS/GRS, the procedure is now more expensive and complicated. In addition, the new forms required and furnished by the government or its for profit subcontractor, are impossible to fill in correctly without contradiction, since they were poorly designed, probably in haste. In my experience, to fill out the new very lengthy form and others required, you will need the telephone assistance of someone from the government office to help you figure out how to get around the shortcomings, lacunae and illogic, of the new forms.
Since my first application was unsuccessful, and held up pending my obtaining a revised Doctor's letter, the six-eight week wait extended longer than expected, and when you add the time puzzling over where to find the appropriate application form, it dragged on and on, partly a matter of my own fault. But eventually the new birth certificate arrived in the mail and all was forgiven.
Unlike other forms, the ones you will need have not been made available on the Internet. Expect a two-three week delay to have them mailed to you, plus a two month delay to have the filled out forms processed. The old forms provided by your GRS/SRS surgeon are no longer of any use. If you are having your surgery done in the near future, this matter will have to be brought to the attention of those medical administrators handling your paperwork.
A valid birth certificate is necessary to get a Canadian passport, so you should factor in the considerable delay with the Ontario government mandated birth certificate revision process, adding it to the time to process the paperwork for your passport.
Since it is a more complicated thing to prove the need to have the gender marker on your birth certificate if you have not had SRS/GRS, the procedure is now more expensive and complicated. In addition, the new forms required and furnished by the government or its for profit subcontractor, are impossible to fill in correctly without contradiction, since they were poorly designed, probably in haste. In my experience, to fill out the new very lengthy form and others required, you will need the telephone assistance of someone from the government office to help you figure out how to get around the shortcomings, lacunae and illogic, of the new forms.
Since my first application was unsuccessful, and held up pending my obtaining a revised Doctor's letter, the six-eight week wait extended longer than expected, and when you add the time puzzling over where to find the appropriate application form, it dragged on and on, partly a matter of my own fault. But eventually the new birth certificate arrived in the mail and all was forgiven.
Unlike other forms, the ones you will need have not been made available on the Internet. Expect a two-three week delay to have them mailed to you, plus a two month delay to have the filled out forms processed. The old forms provided by your GRS/SRS surgeon are no longer of any use. If you are having your surgery done in the near future, this matter will have to be brought to the attention of those medical administrators handling your paperwork.
A valid birth certificate is necessary to get a Canadian passport, so you should factor in the considerable delay with the Ontario government mandated birth certificate revision process, adding it to the time to process the paperwork for your passport.