CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — Alberta remains intent on protecting children and has appealed a court injunction blocking the province’s ban on transgender surgeries and drugs for gender-confused minors.
On July 25, Alberta filed an appeal of an injunction against Bill 26, which bans “gender transitioning” surgeries and drugs like puberty blockers and hormones for minors, through a filing with the Alberta Court of Appeal.
“We’re delighted that the Alberta government has appealed a court injunction against its legislation to ban all genital mutilation surgery for minors, and puberty blockers for children under age 16,” Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews.
Amputating reproductive organs of children “is cruel and inhuman treatment, no matter how powerful their delusion of being ‘trapped in the wrong body’ might be,” he declared. “Chemically castrating little boys with the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is pure evil. No sane or moral government should ever allow the medical system to permanently and irreversibly chop off perfectly healthy body parts.”
The appeal comes after Alberta King’s Court Justice Allison Kuntz granted a temporary injunction against the legislation on June 27.
Alberta’s new legislation, which was passed in December, amends the Health Act to “prohibit regulated health professionals from performing sex reassignment surgeries on minors.”
The legislation also bans the use of puberty blockers and hormones for “treatment” of gender dysphoria to children 15 years of age and under. Regrettably, those who have begun using the drugs can continue doing so, and the bill also allows 16- and 17-year-olds to take puberty blockers and hormones with “parental, physician and psychologist approval.”
Just days after the legislation was passed, an LGBT activist group called Egale Canada, along with many other LGBT organizations, filed an injunction to block the bill.
In her ruling, Kuntz alleged that Alberta’s legislation “will signal that there is something wrong with or suspect about having a gender identity that is different than the sex you were assigned at birth.”
She further claimed that preventing minors from making life-altering decisions could inflict emotional damage.
However, the province of Alberta said that these “damages” are speculative and the process of “gender transitioning” children is not supported by scientific evidence.
“I think the court was in error,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said on her Saturday radio show. “That’s part of the reason why we’re taking it to court. The court had said there will be irreparable harm if the law goes ahead. I feel the reverse. I feel there will be irreparable harm to children who get sterilized at the age of 10 years old – and so we want those kids to have their day in court.”
Overwhelming evidence shows that persons who undergo so-called “gender transitioning” procedures are more likely to commit suicide than those who are not given such irreversible surgeries. In addition to catering to a false reality that one’s sex can be changed, transgender surgeries and drugs have been linked to permanent physical and psychological damage, including cardiovascular diseases, loss of bone density, cancer, strokes and blood clots, and infertility.
Meanwhile, a study on the side effects of “sex change” surgeries discovered that 81 percent of those who have undergone them in the past five years reported experiencing pain simply from normal movements in the weeks and months that followed, among many other negative side effects.
“We have been gaslighted by the media and homosexual lobby groups like Egale for too many years,” Fonseca revealed. “Affirming people in mental delusion and encouraging them to chop off healthy body parts does NOT save lives. It causes gender-confused children to commit suicide later in life at a rate that is 19 times higher than the general population.”
“We urge all Canadians to contact Premier Smith and Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery to keep fighting until they win, and to invoke the notwithstanding clause if necessary,” he concluded.