Saskatchewan families fight to have gender taken off birth certificates

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Forsberg says she is frustrated that the issues don’t address what she says is the emotional torture many transgender children are living with every day.

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She says removing the gender qualification on identification will help remove the stigma, questions and bullying that their children go through every day.

“This government needs to take responsibility for this, they need to move on it now, it needs to be settled,” says Forsberg. “It does not need to be dragged on and there is no reason for it to do so.

“I don’t understand what they’re talking about, their jargon — what I do understand and what I see myself is that children are taking their own lives.”

That’s a sentiment echoed by Megan Cheesbrough, another parent in the lawsuit.

“The arguments that we think are so clear and emotional and necessary are really being hung up on matters of procedures,” says Cheesbrough.

(CJME)

CJME, The Canadian Press