Gender marker X: Alexe Frédéric Migneault ends his hunger strike

Posted On: December 30, 2023

After 12 days, Alexe Frédéric Migneault ends his hunger strike, which began with the aim of obtaining the X marker on his Régie de l'assurance santé du Québec (RAMQ) card.

Alexe Frédéric Migneault ends his hunger strike without having won his case to obtain the gender marker X on his health insurance card, but with the promise that organizations will continue to intervene with the Legault government.

The pronoun iel, formed from the pronouns he and she, is used in this text to reflect the gender identity of Alexe Frédéric Migneault. The agreements between adjectives and past participles are in the masculine according to the preferences expressed by Alexe Frédéric Migneault.

Alexe Frédéric Migneault is outraged by the work to obtain the gender marker moving at excessively slow speedseven if a certain listening and sensitivity could have appeared in the last few days.

Hundreds of people suffer from this lack of recognition, which directly affects their dignity, including mine.we can read in a press release published on Friday by the Alliance Arc-en-ciel de Québec.

As long as their documents have not been corrected in accordance with the Civil Code, like the rest of the population, I do not exclude the possibility of continuing my steps or starting others.

Alexe Frédéric Migneault does not believe that his efforts in recent days will have been in vain, but claims to have received them significant support that will be very useful for the further representation of these demands.

They also stated that the organizations will continue to support it and continue to work with the government to avoid the status quo and accept an acceptable temporary transitional compromise, as they have proposed, pending the completion of the work of the Interministerial Committee.

Since 2022, non-binary people can use the X marker in their official documents.

According to the latest data from the Quebec government, there are 4,925 non-binary people aged 15 to 34 and 1,435 non-binary people aged 35 and older living in the province.

Alexe Frédéric Migneault also commented on his Facebook account. When they say that they are happy with the role they played, Alexe Frédéric Migneault acknowledges that the process was like that painful and disabling.

I do not recommend that anyone go on a hunger strikewe can read in a publication published late Friday afternoon.