Advocates are in Ottawa asking the federal government to call an inquiry into provincial laws they say have escalated harassment, bullying and mental health harms for transgender people.
Laws on the books in Saskatchewan and Alberta require parental consent for students under 16 to change their names or pronouns at school.
Alberta also has a law that bans transgender athletes 12 and older from participating in amateur competitive female sports, and another that restricts gender-affirming medical care for youth.
LGBTQ+ advocates say members of Parliament need to hear from those impacted by these laws, adding that some have taken their own lives since the policies were enacted.
Both Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe invoked the notwithstanding clause to shield their laws from court challenges.
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They say the school rules are about parental rights, and Smith’s government says its other laws are about safety for females playing sports and ensuring youth don’t make rash, life-altering decisions.
Remember in the 1990s when women used to say they were just as good and should be able to compete against men and complained LOUDLY when they weren’t allowed to. It’s the 2020s and now they complain LOUDLY when men seek to compete against them, saying they are weaker than men and they need to level the playing field so that they only compete against other women….. and NOW they are complaining about having to compete against women who were born with above normal testosterone levels for women. Even though it is still a woman they are competing against, their complaint is about having to compete against someone with more natural ability and genetics. When did women get so indoctrinated that they were the weaker sex and should be treated as such. I work with many women in a mostly manual labor job and some of those older women work longer and harder and are stronger than half the younger men they work with (though that just could be because they are Gen Z males). Women, don’t fall for Conservative indoctrination that you are weak and need big strong Conservative men to protect you. You are strong and just as capable as us guys. I see proof of that daily.
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Some people have taken their own lives since Income Tax was enacted. Let’s review that as well.
Bio men dressing up as women do not belong in women’s sports or women’s bathrooms. I have no problem with people changing sex or dressing how ever they want. Stay out of females sports and washrooms.
Sad these laws ever needed to be made in the first place..
and again …transgender is not a real thing. It’s a mental illness and should be treated as such.
@Ben: a rather lame attempt at humour but, if what you say actually happened, that would explain a lot about your attitude. Get some professional help, preferably before posting dumbass comments.
The laws are common sense. Anyone protesting should be arrested and charged with harming children.
Ben: such a bad example for your point. You are a prime example why these laws are good for society. – is this your attempt at satire? You need to include a punch line…
Will the “Advocates” be willing to listen to parents and children the affects that (insert alphabet) people have on traditional family values? I bet it will be a bunch of Ulta-Lefties screaming how everyone is required to accept them and their indoctrination of children.
Carney should step in and over-rule these Maga provinces who are stealing people’s rights. I took puberty blockers for a whole summer when I went and stayed with my uncle as a child. I wore a dress the whole summer and I turned out fine. I even earned a trophy in girls basketball, something I was never able to do as a boy.
I appreciate my uncle giving me puberty blockers and all the other fun things he taught me. It has made me who I am today.
It’s a provincial law so the feds need to stay out of this.
Please god separate the LGB from the rest of the TQIA+?R*trd group.
So sick of being lumped in with these brainless abominations, the rest of the LGB is deranged enough as it is, we don’t need the craziest among us dragging us down.
Besides, sexual attraction and gender identity are 2 completely different things, why do we group it all in one
Its always about how “harmed” the special groups are, without providing any evidence – pure emotional manipulation.
only the liberal governmental allow harassment and bulling at normal people for calling a spade a spade, for pointing out its a mental illness
F off
The LGBPQ groups need to give up their pursuit of children.
This is all just a broader agenda of western decline. Congratulations, you’re just unwitting pawns in their game. But keep indoctrinating children, that’s exactly what they want.
Is Puberty not the normal transition of the human body that each and everyone goes through to evolve into an adult.
Puberty blockers are not natural and created by humans for some ideology that is not part of the normal human body transition.
Once a human turns to the age of maturity and wants to mutilate and transition their body go ahead and do that. Don’t care.
Just don’t force your ideology on children simple as that.
“..as it makes no permanent changes to the body.”
MSGH, there are known possible physical and psychological short and long-term side effects from using hormong blockers. Stop spreading information.
The only transgender care someone under 16 can access is puberty blockers. As soon as one stops taking them, their effect ceases and normal puberty starts up again. Taking them is hardly a rash, life-altering decision as it makes no permanent changes to the body. Puberty, on the other hand, makes permanent, life-altering changes to the body that cannot be reversed.
The UCP is simply pandering to the fears of her uneducated electorate and don’t care how many lives they ruin in the process.
Stay away from my children unless you really enjoy hospital food