Kori Doty defines herself as a non-binary transgender, that is, she has not identified herself as a man or as a woman, and has been fighting for eight months, when her baby Searyl Atli was born, to be able to register it without gender.
You don't want it defined as a boy or girl. Instead, he wants his son to decide his own gender in the future. "I want to raise him like this until he has the awareness and vocabulary management necessary to be able to tell me who he is," explains Doty, who believes that it should not be doctors who designate the sex of a person just by observing their genitals at birth.
From the beginning, the authorities of British Columbia (Canada) refused to have Searyl Atli registered without gender, but his father is in full legal battle to get it. In other Canadian provinces, however, they do accept the non-binary gender option for official documents.
"I recognize him as a baby and I am trying to give him all the love and support he needs to be the person who can be beyond the restrictions that come with defining him as a boy or a girl."For the moment, he has managed to get a health card assigned by the authorities where there is a "U" as gender, so that the baby could have access to medical services. The "U" corresponds to "undetermined" or "unassigned", in Spanish, undetermined or unassigned sex.
"When I was born, doctors looked at my genitals and made assumptions about who I would be, and these assumptions already followed my identity for the rest of my life. Those assumptions were incorrect, and I had to make many adjustments since then," he said. father to The Metro.
Consider that assigning sex to a person implies a violation of human rights, taking away the possibility of freely choosing your own sexual identity.
