Alberta Premier Marlaina Smith plans to enact policies that will unavoidable HURT Trans kids while pretending to care about their protection.

Some of these changes include forcing tans kids below the age of 16 to get parental permission in order to use different pronouns or a different name and even 16 and over the parents must still be informed.

How does this protect trans youth? How does outing them against their will do anything but put them at risk for abuse from bad parents?
What parental right is violated by not being informed that a child is using different pronouns?

*Oh, and just in case you were wondering where Premier Marlaina Smith got her information, don't worry, she has consulted all the best experts:

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JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

Funny as well because don't these conservatives value the individuals rights and believe government should not be involved in our bedrooms or sexual choices, or decisions about our own body?

This same lady equated the province's mask mandate and Covid restrictions to that of Jewish persecution in WWII and rallied against the government sticking it's nose in people's business but now she feels this government interference ok if it is part of her agenda!

Pikachu

@JimboSaturn

That's the disconnect that i find really astounding.
They don't want the government interfering with individual rights and bodily autonomy...until they're doing so in the direction they approve of.
And they're all saying "Yeah! Parent's rights!" while these policies in fact take away a parent's right to grant their child consent for things like puberty blockers.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@Pikachu Agreed, if the child is going to use puberty blockers, they obviously have support from their parents and doctors. So much for the 'family's" rights.
Plus obviously puberty blockers taken after puberty is not very helpful.

NerdyPotato ·

@JimboSaturn and that to override the decisions of 22 people last year. "Sometimes that's necessary. We did that for the opioid crisis too." That affected hundreds of thousands. Who do you think you're fooling with that comparison?🤦🤦🤦 (Probably a whole lot of voters will be, sadly.)

Pikachu

@JimboSaturn

Plus obviously puberty blockers taken after puberty is not very helpful.

Yeah i'd like to see her give the reasoning behind that one. We know she didn't consult any experts so i wonder how she justifies those mental gymnastics.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@NerdyPotato Pretty sure her response to the opioid crisis was the predictable reduce safe injection sites and keep treating it as a criminal issue instead of a health issue.