4. Commission your application

Once you have filled out your forms and have all your supporting documents, take your package to a Commissioner for Affidavits.

Who is a Commissioner for Affidavits?

A Commissioner for Affidavits is someone who has the power to sign your affidavits or declarations. They do this after having you swear or affirm that what's in a document is true. A lawyer, paralegal, municipal clerk, or notary public, can be a Commissioner for Affidavits. 

Make your declarations

You need to swear that all the information is true in Form 007-11324e: Statutory Declaration for a Change of Sex Designation on a Birth Registration of an Adult, in front of a Commissioner for Affidavits. Then they fill out and sign the bottom part of the form. And you sign the form in front of them.

If you're also applying to change your legal name when you apply to change your gender marker on your birth certificate, you need to make a second statutory declaration. This is the form in Part 6 of Form 007-11155E: Application to change an adult’s name. You can make both statutory declarations in front of the same commissioner.   

Find a commissioner

You can have your documents commissioned at some ServiceOntario locations. Use their online tool to search for a “Commissioner of Oaths” to find locations that have a commissioner and book an appointment. Call before you go and ask if there is a fee.

Some community legal clinics and organizations that help people change their gender marker on identity documents may commission your application for free. Find your local clinic and call them to see if they provide this .

Or you can pay a commissioner, like a lawyer or notary, to commission your documents for you. It usually costs between $10 to $30 for one document.