Alberta Premier Smith willing to use the notwithstanding clause on trans health bill : alberta

This thread is so r-slurred

YakHooker315 235 points 6 hours ago

If y'all want to protect kids, start protecting them from the church

[–]Miserable-LizardEdmonton[S] 134 points 6 hours ago*

The ucp is actually making it more risky for kids!

Religious schools can be exempt from sexual education which protects abusive parents!

The ucp will also protect abusive parents by making sexual education optional! Abusive parents won't sign them up so they can continue to r*pe their kids!

The ucp protect male feminists

[–]Splashadian 53 points 6 hours ago

This is where children are unsafe. Keep your religion away from all children.

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[–]lime-equine-2 44 points 5 hours ago

Kids are trans whether you try to hide the existence of trans people from them or not. Letting kids know trans people exist helps trans kids feel less alone and weird. It also curbs bigotry and bullying even for cis kids. Access to appropriate healthcare leads to better lifelong mental health, lowers suicidality, and less medical procedures later on.

If you're against trans kids getting support now are you willing to pay for their mental health support and surgery later?

[–]Cndwafflegirl 13 points 4 hours ago

This exactly. Back in 80's we had trans kids in school. We just accepted them.

[–]the_gaymer_girlSouthern Alberta 18 points 4 hours ago

The UCP don't want trans adults existing either, since their convention resolution for the "bathroom bill" passed into their platform and their policies make it less likely for trans youth to survive to adulthood.

[–]DemonicHowler 97 points 5 hours ago*

My mum kept 'trans stuff' away from me as a kid, especially after I started expressing distress when I hit puberty and developed breasts. Puberty blockers would have saved me extensive surgery and scarring, years of self harm, and permanent effects from natal puberty that will always flag me for the rest of my life.

Instead she handed me to a libertarian to cure me, because God. I'm still trans. I've been trans since birth. All delaying my treatment did was make me vastly less likely to make it this long and put me through vastly more unneeded trauma.

That's what y'all demand every time you go against scientifically studied and proven treatment. The regret rates are incredibly low, less than two percent. Meanwhile half of knee replacement recipients regret it, but no one is banning knee replacement. They're just inflicting incredible harm because they don't want to understand.

The Nazis started by burning the institute for sexology, where trans people were being provided care, and killing its doctors and patients. Singlehandedly set research back decades.

It's time we catch up.

Are they in sighting violence?

Also, there are carveouts in these laws to allow cis girls under 16 to get breast enhancement. You good with that? Only a problem when trans teens have equal access? Or how about Smith being open that she plans on coming after adult trans healthcare?

Trans kids ARE kids. They deserve developmental years in a safe environment, feeling comfortable in their own skin. They don't deserve psychological and physical torture because some folks find science scary.

It's darn sad we've been going in the same circles since the 1930s.

[–]HrafnkelH 24 points 5 hours ago

If the government doesn't want anybody under 16 going through irreversible changes, doesn't that mean they have to give puberty blockers to everyone under 16?

[–]DemonicHowler 27 points 5 hours ago

Can't expect consistent logic when the goal is to cause harm, unfortunately

Do people who believe kids should go on blockers think letting their kid have that choice vs a child going through early puberty is the same?