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Two Canadian LGBTQ advocacy groups have launched a legal challenge, being processed in court Monday, which seeks to overturn a provincial law they say violates the rights of transgender minors.
The case targets legislation passed by the right-wing provincial government in Alberta that sets new restrictions on the care health professionals can provide minors who identify as transgender.
Alberta’s Bill 26, which became law last week, bans sex reassignment surgery on minors and bars the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapies “for the treatment of gender dysphoria or gender incongruence,” for anyone 15 and under.
Alberta’s Bill 26, which became law last week, bans sex reassignment surgery on minors and bars the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapies “for the treatment of gender dysphoria or gender incongruence,” for anyone 15 and under
Under 18. So 17 and underWhat's the age for the Tennessee law? 18 and under?
But talks over the 1,800-page-plus text were complicated by a last-minute Republican intervention to prevent the military’s health program from covering gender-affirming care for children of service members if it results in “sterilization.”
“Citizens don’t want their tax dollars to go to this, and underaged people often regret these surgeries later in life,” Nebraska Republican Don Bacon told CNN. “It’s a bad hill to die on for Democrats.”
The must-pass NDAA — a bill that Congress has sent to the president’s desk without fail every year since 1961 — cleared the chamber in a 281-140 vote and now moves to the Senate, with final passage expected next week
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, part of a broader effort to crack down on what his administration has described as “gender insanity” in the federal government.
Trump on Jan. 20, during his first hours in office, revoked an executive order signed by former President Biden in 2021 that allowed transgender people to serve and prevented the military from discharging soldiers because of their gender identity. Trump also signed a sweeping executive order recognizing only two genders, male and female