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Transgender rights in Canada, including procedures for changing legal gender and protections from discrimination, vary among provinces and territories, due to Canada's nature as a federal state. [1] According to the 2021 Canadian census , 59,460 Canadians identify as transgender. [ 2 ]
Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights are some of the most extensive in the world. [5] [6] [7] Same-sex sexual activity, in private between consenting adults, was decriminalized in Canada on June 27, 1969, when the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69 (also known as Bill C-150) was brought into force upon royal assent. [1]
laws related to sexual orientation and military service; laws concerning access to assisted reproductive technology; sodomy laws that penalize consensual same-sex sexual activity. These may or may not target homosexuals, males or males and females, or leave some homosexual acts legal. adultery laws that same-sex couples are subject to
Canada issued a warning to travelers visiting the United States about state laws impacting LGBTQ people.
Under the heading of "Equality Rights" this section states: 15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
The law is the most recent iteration of several proposed bills introduced to previous parliaments. In 2005, New Democratic Party member of Parliament Bill Siksay introduced a bill in the House of Commons to explicitly add "gender identity or expression" as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act .
A trans woman can be registered, not only as female, but also as being "born as a woman". [156] While same-sex marriage is not approved by South Korean law, [157] a transsexual woman obtains the marital status of 'female' automatically when she marries to a man, even if she has previously been designated as "male". [citation needed]
Although same-sex sexual activity was illegal in Canada up to 1969, gay and lesbian themes appear in Canadian literature throughout the 20th century. Canada is now regarded as one of the most advanced countries in legal recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights.