Welcome to Trans* Guide MB! This website is a resource for gender-diverse people in Manitoba. It aims to direct people to services and through procedures sought as part of a gender transition, such as accessing and initiating gender-affirming care, as well as changing legal names and/or gender markers.

This website is a project of Leila Praznik. If you have any questions, corrections, suggestions, or revisions, please send an email to lpraznik (at) proton (dot) me.

Acknowledgements

Inspiration for this website was taken from Celeste Trianon’s Legal Transition Knowledge Base for the province of Québec, as well as Trans Sask’s Accessing Affirming Healthcare guide and Name Change Guide for the province of Saskatchewan.

Land Acknowledgment

This website was authored on Treaty 2 territory, on lands traditionally inhabited by the Anishnaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree and Dene peoples, on the homeland of the Red River Métis, and on the unceded territory of the Dakota. It is intended to be useful those on lands among those covered by Numbered Treaties 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10.

We respect these lands, their history, and their original inhabitants, and the stewardship they have done for these lands throughout the ages. We also recognize the broad, far-reaching, ongoing impacts of colonization on the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. In the spirit of intersectionality, we acknowledge the impacts done to queer and trans* Indigenous people, including the erasure of two-spirit people and imposition of a strict gender binary by European settlers, and the ongoing genocide against missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people (MMIWG2S+). We support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action, as well as the 231 Calls for Justice made by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

This website may refer to terms such as “Indian status”. This is done in reference to legal terms, such as those defined in the Indian Act of Canada, only to avoid ambiguity, and with thought given to their colonial and racist implications.