LGBTQ+ groups argue changes to health law violate gender-diverse young people’s Section 7 Charter right
LGBTQ+ advocate organizations say they’re working as quickly as possible to ask a court to stop the Alberta government from bringing into force a transgender law they say will cause immediate harm.
“This is harmful immediately, and there’s enough reason to doubt the constitutionality of this for the judge to preserve the status quo while they consider the broader arguments,” Jensen told The Canadian Press on Monday. Under the law, she will be prevented from accessing puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones for six years, until she is 16.
The surgical ban went into effect as soon as the bill received royal assent Thursday, but other prohibitions are expected to come into force in the coming months. The health-care bill is one of three that will affect transgender people in the province and were passed last week by Premier Danielle Smith’s government.
Smith has said she doesn’t believe she’ll need to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to shield her government’s bills from legal challenges.
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