“The government is introducing policies across several ministries to preserve the choices children and youth have before potentially making life-altering and often irreversible adult decisions involving the alteration of their biological sex while also ensuring women and girls have the opportunity to participate safely and meaningfully in sport.
Altering one’s body to align with one’s sense of gender is an adult choice, the government says, and children and youth must be protected from making irreversible decisions signing away reproductive rights and future sexual pleasure.
In the news conference following her video message announcing the government’s plans, Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith said, “As adults, we have an obligation to ensure for kids that they preserve all of those important choices until they’re adults, until they’re able to make those decisions with the maturity that goes along with that.” In her video message Premier Smith said, “Prematurely encouraging or enabling children to alter their very biology or natural growth, no matter how well-intentioned and sincere, poses a risk to that child’s future that I, as premier, am not comfortable with permitting in our province.”
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Transgender — Links to Barbara;s posts
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Miriam Grossman, Lost in TransNation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness
Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
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