High schooler Aspen Cervo says he began thinking about a student walkout over the Alberta government's planned policies around transgender youth right after Premier Danielle Smith announced them last week. Cervo, 16, poses for a portrait at Leduc Composite High School, in Leduc, Alta., Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024.
Hundreds of students staged classroom walkouts on Wednesday morning to protest the Alberta government's planned policies around transgender youth.High school student Aspen Cervo says he began thinking about a student walkout over the Alberta government's planned policies around transgender youth right after Premier Danielle Smith announced them last week. Cervo, 16, poses for a portrait at Leduc Composite High School, in Leduc, Alta.
The walkouts are the latest in a string of demonstrations decrying the proposed policies. Smith's announcement has spurred several protests — both at the grassroots level and from groups like the Alberta Medical Association. Sixteen-year-old Aspen Cervo, a student at Leduc Composite High School in Leduc, 35 kilometres south of Edmonton, said he began thinking about planning a student walkout right after Smith announced the policies last week.
Students gather outside Edmonton's Victoria School Wednesday morning in protest against proposed policies that would mean sweeping changes to medical care for trans youth. Other types of gender-affirming care, such as hormone therapy that his brother has been waiting for to change his voice, are decisions that Cervo feels his brother and others his age are old enough to make for themselves.
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