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Even as we gain awareness that there are more than two genders, parents are still expected to put "male" or "female" on their children's birth certificates. But Kori Doty, a non-binary person in British Columbia, Canada, is resisting this rule, CBC reports. Their child was born in November and does not have a birth certificate because the government wouldn't issue one without a gender. Their health card simply says "U," which Kori guesses means "undetermined" or "unassigned," where a gender would be. As far as we know, they are the first baby in the world to have this type of documentation, according to the BBC. They're arguing that because many people don't identify with the gender they're assigned at birth – and it's difficult to assign many people, such as intersex people, a traditional gender – it's unrealistic and potentially harmful to expect every child to be assigned male or female. http://www.allure.com/story/canadian-... http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com