However, it acts on requests in accordance with electronic data management restrictions as well as the legislative framework of the Vital Statistics Act.Current legislation requires that a person undergo sex reassignment surgery before the gender listed on their birth certificate can be changed.Last year, Ontario became the first Canadian jurisdiction to allow changes without surgery, after the province's Human Rights Tribunal found the requirement to be "substantively discriminatory.""Getting rid of gender markers on identity documents would be an enormous step toward equality for trans people," she said. Race and class in the form of "father's occupation" have already been removed from birth certificates."What people think is necessary to identify a child, when a child is born, changes with the times," findlay said."The fact of the matter is we have way, way, way more accurate ways of identifying people now, including thumb prints