2/9 #Bill9 uses the "notwithstanding clause" to shield legislation affecting #Transgender people from the courts.
This includes #Bill26, which bans #PubertyBlockers and #HormoneTherapy for youth under 16.
👉 For northerners relying on Alberta's medical system, the threat is immediate. 👈
4/10 When #Bill26 was passed last year, #FoM and others warned it was "clearly discriminatory legislation and a political attack on #gender-affirming #HealthCare, something that is already sorely lacking in #Alberta."
#AbHealth #AbPoli #AbLeg #TransRights #HumanRights #CanadianCharter #UCPfail
1/10
🚨 🩺 FRIENDS OF MEDICARE SLAM USE OF #NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE 🩺 🚨
The #UCP expect to table #Bill9 today.
The clause will reportedly be used on three laws from last year, including #Bill26, which "limits access to #gender-affirming #HealthCare."
#AbLeg #AbPoli #PublicHealth #FriendsOfMeficare
www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...
CMA calls on Alberta government to refrain from using notwithstanding clause to interfere with patient care
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #CMA
#NotWithstanding #Bill26
#trans #transgender #gender
#affirming #care #medical
5/11 Previously, the same groups successfully challenged Bill 26, the Health Statutes Amendment Act 2024.
A judge placed a hold on the provincial law banning doctors from providing gender-affirming care like puberty blockers to youth under 16.
#Bill26 #GenderCare
4/31 BILL 26: Health Statutes Amendment Act
Bans puberty blockers and hormone therapy for gender dysphoria for anyone under 16. Prohibits gender-affirming surgeries for minors under 18 (though bottom surgery was already restricted to adults).
#Bill26 #MedicalRestrictions
1/11 ⚕️ POLITICIANS HAVE NO PLACE IN ALBERTA EXAM ROOMS ⚕️
Former CMA president speaks out against Alberta's Bill 26.
Dr. Katharine Smart's Globe and Mail warning: After 24 years practicing medicine, she never expected to defend basic doctor-patient relationships from politicians.
#ABhealth #Bill26
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
There’s no place for politicians in the medical exam rooms of the nation
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Trans #Transgender
#Bill26 #medical #exam
#CMA #AMA #association
#Canada #Canadian
A little trip down Danny lane #daniellesmith #bill26 #alberta #transrightsarehumanrights
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2/9 Justice Allison Kuntz of Alberta Court of King's Bench granted temporary injunction against Bill 26 on Friday.
The law would ban doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to youth under 16, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
#Bill26 #CourtRuling
A cringing, scowling, cowardly Premier Danielle Smith can't face UAlberta students speaking Truth to Power inre her ugly, bigoted, anti-trans Bill 26.
I knew the second I saw it this #DanielleSmith image would come in handy over and over and over and over again. Shout out to the #UAlberta students speaking #TruthToPower over #Bill26 in the original photo #TransRights #abpoli #AlbertaPensionPlan #CanadaPensionPlan #DanielleSmith
I knew the second I saw it this #DanielleSmith image would come in handy over and over and over and over again. Shout out to the #UAlberta students speaking #TruthToPower ober #Bill26 in the original photo #TransRights #abpoli #AlbertaPensionPlan #CanadaPensionPlan #DanielleSmith
3/7 Bill 26 directs physicians on gender-affirming care for those under 18, prohibiting hormone therapy and puberty blockers for those under 16.
The CMA calls it "historic and unprecedented government intrusion into the physician-patient relationship." #Bill26
7/11 Meanwhile, the Canadian Medical Association filed a constitutional challenge against UCP Bill 26, which interferes with gender-affirming care. The CMA fears this "unprecedented government intrusion" will expand to other health issues.
#Bill26 #ConstitutionalChallenge #CMA #GenderCare
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Canadian Medical Association to file legal challenge over Alberta law limiting access to treatment for transgender youth
#abpoli #ableg #Bill26 #FireTheUCP #Alberta #FireSmith #TransRightsAreHunanRights #Trans #Transgender
