Advocacy groups to argue Alberta transgender legislation amounts to criminal prohibition
Hundreds of people attend a rally to protect trans kids in Calgary, in February, 2024. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press Advocacy groups are attempting a new legal strategy to combat an Alberta law that prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming health care to transgender youth – legislation the provincial government has shielded with the Charter’s notwithstanding clause. Last June, Egale Canada, Skipping Stone Foundation and five youth and their parents won a court injunction to put...