Premier Danielle Smith: Retract Harmful Trans Anti-Policies Now

Alberta faces a critical moment as Premier Danielle Smith's policies pose a dire threat to the health and well-being of trans and gender-diverse youth.

These moves go beyond regressive; they're outright targeting the safety, health, and human rights of trans and gender-diverse individuals and their families in Alberta.

Plainly, Premier Smith's agenda will harm trans kids; trampling over medical experts and forcing doctors and psychiatrists to betray their professional ethics; removing access to resources, information, and the support of the community in schools and burying teachers in bureaucracy; and further exacerbating the transphobia already so prevalent in sports.

This dangerous path jeopardizes freedoms in Alberta, directly harming the health, well-being, and rights of transgender and gender-diverse individuals.

These policies don't just restrict essential care; they perpetuate damaging myths. This amplification of toxic disinformation against trans kids paves the way for a surge in mental health crises among youth who are already among the most vulnerable populations in our province.

It's an egregious attack on their well-being, the services they need, and their lives overall.

Contrasting sharply with these policies is the remarkable bravery of transgender youth. Their unparalleled courage in facing societal challenges, standing firm in their identity. Despite the shadow of erasure, it demands recognition and action.

We must demand Premier Smith retract these policies.

Alberta needs laws that uphold the health and dignity of every child. Speak out now to safeguard trans kids from these destructive policies.

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I'm reaching out to express my deep concern over policies announced by Premier Danielle Smith that gravely endanger the well-being of transgender youth in Alberta.

These policies are causing immediate and irreparable harm to trans and gender-diverse youth by:

* Restricting access to essential gender-affirming care, with blatant disregard for medical consensus on best practices from experts within our province and globally established standard of care from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health

* Restricting access to puberty-suppressing medication, which research shows has little to no adverse effects and causes no irreversible changes, however, can often be life-saving as a result of not forcing trans and gender-diverse youth to go through an incongruent puberty

* Perpetuating discrimination against trans and gender diverse folks by lending credence to the misconceptions around surgeries for minors, as there has never been a recorded instance of a youth undergoing bottom surgery in Canada.

* Eliminating the opportunity for youth to have access to an affirming and inclusive space in schools and the ability to explore their gender and seek the support they might need to come out to their parents by requiring disclosure of any change in name or pronoun use.

* Restricting the opportunity for youth to be able to live congruently with their gender identity in schools leads to significant challenges in forming community and group identity, which is the number one resiliency factor for trans and gender-diverse youth.

* Restricting trans and gender-diverse youth's access to information, resources, community connection, visibility, and representation by requiring explicit opting in practices and censure-like government approval of all material and resources relating to gender identity.

* Implementing explicitly exclusionary policies for trans women and girls in sports by actively prohibiting inclusive involvement on the basis of gender identity, amplifying the transphobia that is already prevalent in sport and against the majority of the sport association's goals of trying to create more welcoming and inclusive participation for trans and gender diverse individuals.

Transgender youth exhibit remarkable courage, insight, and self-awareness in asserting their identity, courage that deserves our support, not policies that seek to make their lives harder.

You possess the power to halt these harmful policies, ensuring all Alberta's children are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.

It's imperative that the government listens to the lived experience of the trans and gender-diverse communities and their families, as well as the medical, mental health, and educational professionals who work to affirm and support them and prioritize the health, safety, and well-being of every child over unfounded fears.

I urge you to take immediate action to retract these policies and protect the rights and well-being of trans and gender-diverse youth in Alberta.

I look forward to your decisive action on this matter.

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Alberta faces a critical moment as Premier Danielle Smith's policies pose a dire threat to the health and well-being of trans and gender-diverse youth.

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