by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting

An 8-month-old baby recently became the first in Canada to have "U" listed as the sex on their health card --  and is possibly the first health card in the world not to have a gender designation.
Now, the baby's parent, Kori Doty, is fighting to have their infant's gender listed as "U" -- for "unidentified" or "unassigned" --  on the baby's birth certificate as well. Or, simply left off the document entirely. This is because Doty, a non-binary transgender person who identifies as neither male nor female, is allowing their child to discover their own gender.
"I'm raising Searyl in in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are, I'm recognising them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box," the parent, from British Columbia, told CBC News.
Doty gave birth to Searyl Atli at a friend's home this past November and wants to keep Searyl's sex off official documents. According to Doty, a visual inspection of genitals at birth cannot determine what sex or gender a person will identify with later in life.
"When I was born, doctors looked at my genitals and made assumptions about who I would be, and those assignments followed me and followed my identification throughout my life," Doty said. &...