The children’s charter: Alberta’s trans policies and legislated rights for children
Alberta recently announced that it would follow New Brunswick and Saskatchewan by enacting policies requiring schools to notify and obtain consent from parents in order to change the names and pronouns of children under the age of 15. Alberta also set out plans to go further than Saskatchewan and New Brunswick by restricting the availability of medical interventions such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children under the age of 16 and sex reassignment surgeries to children under 18. It also proposed restrictions on the participation of biological males in female sports. The policy announcements have provoked a wave of one-sided criticism from academics, especially legal academics.