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Resources about/for Trans Kids

The following resources relate to trans* children:
(to be updated before May 15, 2014, please check back soon!)

How to Change your Identification and other Useful Information 

The Transgender Health Program in Vancouver has kindly permitted us to reproduce their very useful pamphlets.

Click on the links below:

Trans Health Matters

How Do I Change My ID

Getting Surgery

Vital Statistics Agency Form for Clients to Fill In

Vital Statistics - medical form for doctor to complete

Medical certificate of transsexual surgery

Sex Change Service User 



2013 Transgender Health Information Program Update


THIP Brochure about Sex Change 2013


THIP Support Groups 2013


Primary care services for trans people through Vancouver Coastal Health

Human Rights for Trans People in B.C.: Making Your Way Through the Maze
This booklet in the Out/Law series tells you whether you have a human rights complaint and if so what the complaint procedure is.


Writing about Trans People - Two Manuals
This is a very helpful manual  written by Trans Pride Canada for those of you who are writers. 


And the B.C. Law Institute has produced a Gender-Free Legal Writing manual, also very helpful.

Human Rights Cases in B.C. affecting Trans people
This section will have all of the human rights cases affecting trans people which have been decided in B.C.  To date it is a work in progress!


Flagg v BC  2014 : Flagg's complaint is against the province with respect to trans health services.  "The gist of Mr. Flagg's complaint is that the Ministry, who funds chest surgery for a number of different medical conditions, treats transgender patients differently and adversely. Mr. Flagg states that the Ministry acknowledges that GRS, including top surgery, is a medically-necessary health service. Mr. Flagg provides examples of medically-necessary chest treatment for cisgender people ("cisgender" means someone whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth). His examples are a cisgender woman who requires a breast reduction, a cisgender woman who has a significant amount of asymmetry between her breasts, or a cisgender man who has gynecomastia (benign enlargement of breast tissue in males)."  The tribunal has acceptd the complaint though it was filed outside of the 6 month time limit
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Cases about Trans people 
(see also Case Chronology)
Kelly v ICBC 2007 BCHRT 382 

Mamela v Vancouver Lesbian Connection 


How WPATH Standards of Care affects Gender AffirmingSurgery
This video is a helpful webinar about how the WPATH (World Profesional Association of Transgender Health standards of care affect you. 















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