Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia CIC

Published purpose

Through this eight-month project, Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia CIC (GACNS) will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by addressing legal barriers to transitioning in Nova Scotia and providing queer youth with policy and governance education. This project will focus on the Nova Scotia Vital Statistics Act and Regulations; reducing wait times and costs associated with legal transitions; and creating mechanisms to address governmental, non-governmental, and private refusal to make documents, applications, and other means of providing personal information align with the Nova Scotian and Canadian human rights acts. It will also seek to create, in partnership with community experts, a comprehensive education program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth regarding policy and governance, providing them the tools to follow in our path towards inclusive policy and governance. GACNS will achieve this objective through internal policy consultations, policy drafting, workshopping, policy outreach, educational content and platform development, and continued consulting with public entities.