>> Across Canada, people are requesting governments to retroactively change the sex listed on their birth certificates, or to have themselves retroactively declared “non-binary.” Provincial governments are attempting to comply.

This is pretty misleading to your readers.   They are not "attempting to comply".  They are complying because they don't have a reason to deny someone something that is in their rights.   Here is an example  http://nsrap.ca/issues/genderidentityexpression
It does not seem unreasonable that a person's identification should match how they present in public (and not necessarily their genitals).  My genitals have never been checked at a Canada customs kiosk.