BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (CBC/CNN) - A transgender parent in Canada won a health document that omits gender specification on their baby's birth certificate.
It's part of a global effort to keep gender off of government documents altogether.
The parent, Kori Doty, identifies as non-binary transgender.
Doty says British Columbia is refusing to issue a gender-blank birth certificate for the child.
But the province issued a health card for the child with the gender listed as "u" for "unassigned" or "undetermined."
The group Gender FREE I.D. said in a statement on its website that the Canadian officials’ action is possibly a “world first.”
Doty wants to avoid assigning a gender to the child, who was born in November.
"I want to be able to give them the most open opportunity to develop as a whole human and I don't want to be restricting them to what might come with a box as guessed by what their genitals look like," Doty said. "That just doesn't seem appropriate to me."
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