Courtesy: Canadian Times
The Country going on a downward trend.
A baby in Canada was given a health card without a gender designation, supposedly making it the world’s first gender-free baby. U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham has denounced as “nonsense” the parent’s argument that it’s a human rights violation to assign a sex to the child. “This Canadian parent believes that assigning a child’s sex at birth is a human rights violation — and they wanted their baby to be registered as ‘gender unknown’ so they can decide their own sex. That’s nonsense,” Graham wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
The story concerns Searyl Atli Doty, born in British Columbia, who is now 8 months old. Campaign group Gender Free I.D. Coalition, whose goal is to “remove all gender/sex designations from identity documents,” said that the child was born “outside of the medical system” and did not undergo a genital inspection at birth. Searyl’s parent, Kori Doty who is a “non-binary genderqueer trans person,” insisted that the child does not need to be assigned a gender.
“It is up to Searyl to decide how they identify, when they are old enough to develop their own gender identity,” Doty said in a statement. “I am not going to foreclose their choices based on an arbitrary assignment of gender at birth based on an inspection of their genitals.” Doty further argued that assigning a gender at birth “is a violation of a child’s human rights to freely express their gender identity,” according to CBC.
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