Alberta's premier doubled down on protecting youth from gender-transition surgeries and puberty blockers, strengthening parental rights in schools, and ensuring fairness in sports.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith plans to use the notwithstanding clause to protect parental notification, female sports, and prohibitions on gender transitions for minors.
The executive order states that it ‘is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.’
‘The Court must make clear: Parents, not the state, should be the ones deciding how and when to introduce their children to sensitive issues about gender and sexuality,’ Becket Fund attorney Eric Baxter said.
Catholic pediatrician Dr. Quentin Van Meter cautioned U.S. bishops about the harmful effects of ‘transgender’ surgeries and drugs on children, emphasizing the lack of scientific evidence supporting their benefits.
The three veto overrides prohibit ‘gender transition’ procedures for children, exclude biological males from girls’ sports, and ban instruction on sexuality or gender ideology from kindergarten through fourth grade.
Please, email and call your provincial Premier and Minister of Education and ask them to follow New Brunswick’s example by instituting a policy that requires parental consent before minor children can use opposite sex pronouns and change their names at school.