Bill 2
The Act respecting family law reform with regard to filiation and amending the Civil Code in relation to personality rights and civil status is a proposed law in the province of Québec, which would bring several changes to family law, legal recognition law, and name change law in the province.
Summary
The bill would introduce a requirement for people wishing to change the sex assigned on their birth certificates to undergo genital surgery, as well as allowing people to add a new section to their birth certificates titled "Gender," which would include the possibility of a third non-male or female gender. The bill would additionally require intersex people to "apply for a change of designation of sex" as soon as possible.The law would also create a legal framework for surrogate pregnancies, putting in place a requirement for a completed surrogacy agreement before the onset of pregnancy. It would also include provisions placing a minimum age of 21 for surrogate mothers, would allow surrogate mothers to be compensated for expenses, a requirement for participants to attend an ethical and psychosocial information session, and would allow surrogate mothers to end the contract without risk of a lawsuit.
The law would also allow the survivors of the Canadian Indian residential school system who had their names forcibly changed and their descents to change their names to a traditional Indigenous name without cost.