Previously, Quebec required applicants to be Canadian citizens. A 2021 court case, "Centre for Gender Advocacy v. Attorney General of Quebec", has struck down six legal provisions considered discriminatory towards trans and non-binary Quebeckers, including one forbidding the use of non-binary gender designations, and another one prohibiting non-citizens to obtain a change of name and sex designation. The Quebec government has until the end of 2021 to amend these aforementioned legal provisions, except for the discriminatory citizenship requirement, which the Court declared invalid with immediate effect. The citizenship requirement has been removed in practice by the Directeur on application forms.