Liberals and Left in Major Meltdown Mode Over Alberta's New Gender Policies for Children

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith lays down common sense restrictions on transgender issues related to children and women's sport and the left loses it

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is at it again, poking the Trudeau Liberals — and for that matter the NDP and leftists — in the eye. They are all having a meltdown over her latest policy announcements addressing transgender issues in public schools, the medical system and women’s sports. In a seven minute video released this past week Smith introduced the following measures and policies pertaining to transgenderism for the province of Alberta. 

Those policies and measures are as follows:

Parents must be notified by schools, and must give their consent when a child under the age of 15 wants to change their name or pronouns, while for teens aged 16-17, parents will be informed, but their consent is not required. — Banning ‘top and bottom’ gender affirming surgeries for minors age 17 and under. — Banning the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy treatment for gender reassignment purposes for those age 15 and under, unless their treatment has already begun. — Parental notification and an opt-in requirement when teachers intend to teach children subjects related to LGBTQ+ issues, gender spectrum theory and matters around sexual identity. — Restrictions related to transgender women (biological men) participating in biological women’s sports for the purposes of safety. — A proposed expansion of a co-ed or gender-neutral league for trans athletes as an alternative. 

Federal Health Minister Mark Holland is “deeply disturbed” (can’t say I disagree with that, if you will excuse the pun), he told an eagerly awaiting media, “The decision that was made by Alberta places kids at risk. I think it’s extremely dangerous to engage in this kind of thing, which is, I think, playing politics when you’re talking about children’s lives.” Does he really believe that or is he just singing the chorus of one of Justin Trudeau’s obedient choir boys? Because of course it’s not dangerous, and not playing politics with children’s lives when you think minors should be able to have permanent sex-change surgery, or when you foist the idea of a gender spectrum and different gender identities on children in primary school, before they even understand what sex is. That’s just fine. It should also be noted that while processes and age cut-offs for funding gender-affirming surgeries vary by province and territory, generally speaking– these types of surgeries are rarely available to children under the age of 18 already. So what is all that fuss about?

Of course Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had to get on his soap box when asked to comment on Smith's announcements. He retorted. "If Premier Smith wants to fight someone, stand with us and fight for Canadians on lower grocery prices, on affordable fuel, on more housing, on fighting climate change," he said. "Fight with us to defend the rights of vulnerable Canadians, don't fight against vulnerable LGBT youth." Does he listen to himself, does he not see his own hypocrisy or the irony of his word? The truth is Smith is fighting for these things for Albertans and Canadians, and she is fighting him! But that’s a whole other article.

The newly minted Justice Minister Arif Virani was more circumspect on the matter saying he has “significant concerns” but will wait to see how the policies are implemented before his government decides to challenge them in court, but his heart didn’t really seem in it. Then there’s Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages – (that’s quite a mouthful) – with his over-the-top pronouncement calling Smith’s policies “our NATO moment as an LGBTQ2S+ community. An attack on one of our communities is an attack on us all, and I need allies and champions to stand up.” Seriously, our NATO moment, an international incident? Can we dial down the drama please. But given he is the only Liberal MP from Alberta, I guess he felt he had to go full bore.

I guess Mr. Boissonnault, being a gay man himself, hasn't been following what some former gender clinicians (gender therapists) have been saying about ‘gender-affirming’ care for children. Many now believe it is homophobic, because it ‘transes away’ vulnerable lesbian, gay and bisexual children. Meaning  that children who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, are often lesbian, homosexual, or bisexual and are simply struggling with their sexuality, rather than their sexual identity. So giving them ‘gender affirming’ care and surgeries that sterlize them, is essentially neutering the gay population. This is something that has been well documented in the book Time to Think, the Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children, by Hannah Barnes. Mr. Boissonnault might want to give it a read.

I don’t suppose he has read the very disturbing exposé by Jamie Reed, a gay woman who worked at a Washington-based gender clinic who blew the whistle on the alarmingly sloppy and rushed treatment of children suffering from apparent gender dysphoria there.

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

I guess he has also never heard of Gays Against Groomers. It is a nonprofit organization of gay people and others, within the community, who oppose recent trends of indoctrinating, sexualizing and medicalizing children under the guise supporting “LGBTQIA+” interests, due to the inherent dangers these trends present, particularly to minors. 

I guess none of these Liberal Ministers have looked at polling data from as recent as 2023 that demonstrates that the vast majority (almost 80 percent) of Canadians believe parents have a right to be infomed if their minor children are coming out as transgender at school and changing their names and pronouns. And many of them also want to be involved in consenting to such a drastic move as well.

I guess they never saw the thousands and thousands of parents who turned out in cities across Canada in early September of last year in the 1 Million March 4 Children, shouting ‘Leave our kids alone’ to express their opposition to the teaching of transgender ideology in elementary schools. Many view it more as form of indoctrination rather than education. But then, these politicans might have missed it if they paid attention only to mainstream media, who gave it minimal and/or biased coverage.

They also haven’t bothered to look at what has been happening in the ‘progessive’ Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, where they went full speed ahead in gender affirming care for young people, long before it became part of the North American zeitgeist, but are now putting the brakes on it.

The Tavistock gender clinic in the UK,—which is what the book Time to Think is about, was shut down and is now facing a mounting number of malpractice lawsuits from young patients who received ‘gender affirming’ care, and are now suffering or regretting it. Yet, all thes idealogues in the Liberal Party here in Canada and the Democrats south of the border seem oblivious to this growing number of red flags.

Norway, Sweden and Finland have all revised their clinical guidelines with respect to gender affirming care for minors, restricting the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transition-related surgeries, i.e. ‘top and bottom’ surgery to clinical research settings only. These moves are based on a series of systematic reviews of evidence regarding the benefits and risks of the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones which have demonstrated a low certainty of benefits. Data collected and analyzed by public health authorities in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and England have concluded that the risk-benefit ratio of youth gender transition ranges from unknown to unfavorable. Have any of these politicans or lawmakers on this side of the pond looked at these studies? Has our Prime Minister, has our mainstream media?

These measures by Smith are not radical, they are common sense, particularly when it comes to the education and medical treament of minors and fairness and safety in women’s sports. They are also what the vast majority of Canadians want — not a vocal well-funded minority of activists that are supported by both the Liberal and NDP parties who can’t seem to distance themselves from the extreme ideologies of the transgender movement. And that don’t seem to care about what their constituents are telling them, or what recent facts and findings on ‘gender affirming care’ for minors are revealing.

And despite what Smith’s vocal opponents accuse her of, she can hardly be seen as ‘transphobic. Because while she is rightly restricting gender affirming care on children, she seems to fully support providing gender-affirming care for transgender adults. In her announcement she also said Alberta plans to focus on attracting medical professionals trained in sex reassignment surgery to the province. She further plans to establish a provincial registry of professionals who provide related services to make it easier for transgender adults to find surgery aftercare and hormone therapy within the province.

Yet, it would seem that when any conservative politician wades into the minefield morass of gender ideology, the opposition parties and the activist groups all come out swinging and singing from the same song sheet, with the usual tropes. They label them transphobic and they say they are attacking an already vulnerable group, or that this will lead to suicides of trans-people, where the evidence on this is weak or manufactured.

"Science Vs" Cited Seven Studies To Argue There’s No Controversy About Giving Puberty Blockers And Hormones To Trans Youth. Let’s Read Them.

And given the size of this movement and the support they get from governments, unions and the mainstream media they are hardly vulnerable. Egal Canada, a transgender support organization, which is largely funded by taxpayers, with a good chunk of that money coming from the Trudeau government, and the Skipping Stone Foundation, which also gets some 40 percent of its money from taxpayers have both condemned Smith’s policy announcement. They call the policies ‘draconian, and described them as a ‘state attack on transgender people’. and plan to bring legal action against the province to ‘protect our communities’.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs Saskwatchewan Premier Scott Moe

So Smith has another fight on her hands — with the Liberal and NDP parties, and these well-funded activist groups. But she is not alone, Premiers Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick and Scott Moe of Saskatachewan have also thrown down the gaunlet when it comes to protecting children from some teachers and portions of the medical community who, cheered on by political leaders, like Trudeau, have bought into this ideology wholesale. She also has the support of a growing army of parents who are making it clear that they are fed up with transgender ideology being pushed on their kids from the idealogues on these fronts. Fight on, premiers, fight on.