Alberta government thread

[Quirky]

If parents care about their children who happen to be transgender, they would move the hell out of that province.

Full stop. It's literally that black and white.

Don't let the door hit them on their way out. If that's the hill they are willing to die on, they are free to search for greener pastures. The 99.9998% of Alberta will keep on keeping on.

 

[Altair]

And I suppose also NZ, USA, UK, Norway, Finland, and Sweden. Running out of nice places to live.

Thankfully, there are 9 other provinces that aren't absolutely horrible

 

[QV]

Thankfully, there are 9 other provinces that aren't absolutely horrible

Curious, what other countries are not absolutely horrible?

 

[Altair]

Don't let the door hit them on their way out. If that's the hill they are willing to die on, they are free to search for greener pastures. The 99.9998% of Alberta will keep on keeping on.

Well being of their child is a pretty damn good hill to die on.

‘We’ll be moving’: Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes

Soon, Premier Danielle Smith is expected to invoke the notwithstanding clause to ban gender-affirming care for children.

www.thestar.com

EDMONTON - Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.
His mother says teachers know him to be kind, and kids in his class gravitate toward him. He wants to be an accountant.
He is also transgender and has identified as a boy since he could speak.
Because his family lives in Alberta, where Premier Danielle Smith is expected to invoke the notwithstanding clause to ban gender-affirming care for children like him, he’ll be forced to go through female puberty.
“We’ll be moving if she enacts that. For the safety of our child,” says his mother.

The seven-year-old loves watching Edmonton Oilers games with his dad.
His mother describes the family as “rednecks” in northern Alberta and says she tried to persuade and manipulate him to identify as a girl, the sex he was assigned at birth, “hoping it would go away.”
It took a long time for her to accept what he was telling her, she says.
He’s too young to start taking puberty blocking medication. But waiting until he turns 16 isn’t an option, says his mother, as irreversible physical changes come with puberty.
She says the family may have to choose between leaving Alberta to access puberty blockers down the road, or staying and watching the boy confront a higher risk of suicide and mental health challenges.
“That really hurts my heart to think about my kids growing up without their cousins and their grandparents,” she says of moving.

 

[Altair]

Curious, what other countries are not absolutely horrible?

Spain, France, 9 other provinces in Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, Thailand, Uraguay off the top of my head

 

[Jarnhamar]

great so kids should be allowed to get gender affirming care if their parents and doctors agree.

7 year olds seem mature enough to me to decide their gender and get prescribed puberty blockers. I'd say as young as 5 even.