This past summer, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government was looking into the use of gender-neutral options on identity cards. Some countries including Australia, New Zealand and Nepal already allow the use of “X” as a gender indicator. Photo from Getty Images.

Parliament voted to make O Canada gender neutral back in June. The change still has to pass the Senate. It would alter the second line of the anthem from “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command." Photo from Getty Images.

In May, the federal government introduced legislation that protects gender expression and identity from discrimination. Justin Trudeau said he is committed to ensuring all Canadians "feel safe and secure, and empowered to freely express themselves." The proposed Bill C-16 still has to pass the Senate. Photo The Canadian Press.

Alberta passed a law this year guaranteeing a student’s right to self-identify their gender and use the bathroom of their choice. So, Alberta Education released new gender guidelines requiring schools to support students who "come out" and who declare their "gender" to be other than their assigned one. "Gendered" sports teams and activities will be eliminated and pronouns, such as "mother" and "father" will be removed from school paperwork. Photo from Getty Images.

In June 2016, Toronto police announced a gender-neutral bathroom at the force’s downtown headquarters. “We want to show we are an inclusive service and we are welcoming regardless of your gender identity and gender expression,” police said in a news release. Photo from Getty Images.

Months after Toronto, Saskatoon Police Services unveiled their gender-neutral bathroom in the lobby of its headquarters. “I think that's what police is all about is working with people and building up trust and I think this is just one small step to signal to people, we're on top of this,” Chief Clive Weighill told Global News. Photo from The Canadian Press.

The Peel school board, serving cities just outside Toronto, announced in September that every one of its secondary schools will get gender-neutral bathrooms. The board indicated it may expand the programs to middle schools in the future. "Safe is more than physically safe … it is also emotionally safe,” a board official told CBC News. Photo from Getty Images.

Montreal's Concordia University pledged in 2014 to have gender-neutral bathrooms across its campus and in 2015, it accomplished that with 100 of them. Concordia appears to be the Canadian university with the largest network of such bathrooms. Most universities have to provide lists/maps to indicate where unisex bathrooms are available. Photo from The Canadian Press.

In May, Montreal's english school board opened the board's first gender neutral washroom — at Westmount High School. It has several stalls and anyone is free to use it. In addition, the city's CEGEP colleges unveiled 15 private, non-gendered washrooms at Vanier College in the city. Photo from the Canadian Press.

In 2013, Vancouver’s city council voted to include gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings, making it the first municipality in the country to do so. In 2014, the city’s public school board passed a motion for genderless bathrooms in its schools and one year later, Seycove Secondary in North Vancouver was the first to have gender-neutral bathrooms. Photo from Getty Images.

The Toronto District School Board announced earlier this year it intends to open all-gender washrooms in public schools across the city. City View Alternative School has had the washrooms since 2013. Just over 50 Toronto public schools currently have an all-gender washroom. Photo from the Toronto District School Board.

The Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto’s summer fair, made a splash this year with gender-neutral washrooms. All washrooms have a male/female mashup symbol with the words, "We don't care." The graphic was designed by Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig. Photo from Twitter/@natalieroth.

The City of Toronto has explicit gender identity rules and guidelines for its employees, rolled out in 2015. Individuals have a right to use the bathroom that they identify with or to demand a unisex one. Its "Positive Space Toronto" campaign seeks to create a more inclusive workforce for members of the LGBTQ community. Unlike Winnipeg, it does not recommend gender-neutral terms in its paperwork. Photo from Twitter/@ctagames2016.

In November, border officials announced that visitors to Canada will be allowed to identify themselves as male, female or other in travel document. The new Electronic Travel Authorizations features three gender options for travellers flying into or through Canada. Photo from The Canadian Press.