{"id":16257,"date":"2012-04-19T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2012-04-19T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T19:57:05","slug":"ontario-human-rights-tribunal-rules-that-a-persons-sex-is-entirely-subjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ontario-human-rights-tribunal-rules-that-a-persons-sex-is-entirely-subjective\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Human Rights Tribunal rules that a person\u2019s sex is entirely subjective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All a man has to do is declare himself a woman and, hey presto, he is one \u2013 in Ontario at least.<\/p>\n<p>The worrying thing about this is that when there is a long queue for the ladies toilets, enterprising females can, by fiat, become temporary men and use the men\u2019s toilets.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2012\/04\/19\/surgery-sex-change-tribunal547.html?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Genital surgery isn&#8217;t required for a man to be legally recognized as a woman, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal says.<\/p>\n<p>Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/rso-1990-c-v4\/latest\/rso-1990-c-v4.html#sec36_smooth\" target=\"_blank\">current law<\/a>, anyone who wants a change in sex designation on his or her birth certificate must first produce a certificate signed by two medical practitioners affirming that &#8220;transsexual surgery&#8221; was carried out.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onhrt\/doc\/2012\/2012hrto726\/2012hrto726.html\" target=\"_blank\">decision<\/a> issued on April 11, the human rights tribunal said the Ontario government must now drop that requirement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All a man has to do is declare himself a woman and, hey presto, he is one \u2013 in Ontario at least. The worrying thing about this is that when there is a long queue for the ladies toilets, enterprising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ontario-human-rights-tribunal-rules-that-a-persons-sex-is-entirely-subjective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[795,1562],"class_list":["post-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-confusion","tag-gender-violence","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}