Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 6, Protection of Privacy. Updated 27 February 2023. 47 Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people. It influences how people perceive themselves and each other, how they act and interact, and the distribution of power and resources in society. Gender identity is not confined to a binary (girl/woman, boy/man) nor is it static; it exists along a continuum and can change over time. There is considerable diversity in how individuals and groups understand, experience and express gender through the roles they take on, the expectations placed on them, relations with others and the complex ways that gender is institutionalized in society.109 A person may identify with genders that are different from their sex or with none at all. These identities may include transgender, nonbinary, or gender neutral. Sexual orientation means the direction of one’s attraction. Some people use the terms gay, straight, bisexual, pansexual, or lesbian to describe their experience.110 Family status means the status of being in a parent and child relationship. For the purposes of this definition: child means son, daughter, stepson, stepdaughter, adopted child and a person to whom another person stands in place of a parent. parent means father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, adoptive parent, and person who stands in place of a parent to another person.111 Marital status means the status of being engaged to be married, married, single, separated, divorced, widowed, or living in a common-law relationship.112 Disability means: (a) any degree of physical disability, infirmity, malformation, or disfigurement, including: (i) epilepsy; (ii) any degree of paralysis; (iii) amputation; (iv) lack of physical coordination; (v) blindness or visual impediment; 109 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, What is gender? What is sex? Available at What is gender? What is sex? - CIHR (cihr-irsc.gc.ca). Accessed on October 25, 2022. 110The 519, Education and Training, Glossary of Terms, available at https://www.the519.org/educationtraining/glossary#. Accessed April 22, 2020. 111 The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, 2018, SS 2018, c S-24.2 at s. 2(1). See also SK OIPC Review Report 109-2015 at [40]. 112 The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, 2018, SS 2018, c S-24.2 at s. 2(1).
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