First, on the issue of Gender Reassignment treatment for minors:
For Minor aged 17 and Under, Top and Bottom Gender Surgeries will Not Be Permitted.
Children aged 15 and Under, Puberty Blockers and Hormone therapies for the purpose of gender reassignment or affirmation will also Not Be Permitted.
Minors aged 16 and 17 will be permitted to commence Hormone Therapies for Gender Reassignment and Affirmation purposes, Will be Permitted with Parental Consent and physician and psychologist approval.
For Transgender Adults, our government is currently working to attract one or more medical professionals to practice in Alberta who specialize in Transgender Surgery to ensure those individuals transitioning have access to an expert in Alberta to assist them with their extremely unique and complex medical needs.
We will also be building a private registry of Medical Professionals who Specialize to better support the lifelong Healthcare Needs of Transgender Albertans, including access to needed hormones and surgery aftercare.
When it comes to classroom instruction on subject matter involving gender identity, sexual orientation or human sexuality, we will be requiring parental notification and an opt-in requirement for each instance a teacher intends to give formal instruction on these subjects.
All third-party resource materials or presentations related to gender identity, sexual orientation or human sexuality in our K-12 school system will need to be pre-approved by the Ministry of Education to ensure the materials are “age-appropriate”.
For a minor aged 15 and under, the government will require parental notification and consent for a school to alter the name or pronouns of a child.
For 16 and 17-year-olds who choose to alter their name or pronouns, parents do not need to give consent but they must be notified.
Our Government also needs to deal with the emerging issue of the unfair disadvantages that young women and girls are experiencing when competing with biologically stronger transgender female athletes in sporting competitions.
Alberta Government will work with sporting organizations active in our province to ensure that women and girls have the choice to compete in a “women’s only” division of athletic competitions and are not forced to compete against biologically stronger transgender female athletes
Not sure of where you are on all of this but all of the above seems to be pretty reasonable.
Just like getting a tattoo or taking up smoking, you need to be an adult as these can have permanent consequences.
For minors, 16-17, they can take hormone therapies, if approved by parents and doctors.
Age Appropriate Content when comes to sexuality in schools that are opt-in, where materials are reviewed by the Ministry of education.
Of course this will make the Liberal and NDP heads explode. They’ve been trying to push through this all hush hush through schools and doctors, even with support of AHS up until a couple of days ago, where they wanted children as young as 12 to be treated as adults with their medical information.
All this does is keep parents informed, allow them to support based on what they believe their family values to be and keep control of those whose lives are trusted to them by birth or legal adoption.
This will also preserve sports and athletics for girls in keeping them competing with their gender and biological equals.
None of this is new to Alberta…to schooling.
We used to have to get/give a permission slip for fieldtrips to go to the ZOO!
Boys played hockey, girls played ringette…
Sexuality, hormones, pronouns are much deeper subjects and parents should have the same rights as we or our parents did for fieldtrips.
Overall…
Sensible Legislation by a Sensible Premier…
Thoughts?
Preserving Choice for Children and Youth