Alberta judge denies effort to amend court challenge against province's transgender law (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Reannlegge@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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In December, Smith's government invoked the Charter's notwithstanding clause on the transgender rules.

The notwidthstanding clause should not be allowed to over ride international medical consensus, see WPATH.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So if I'm parsing this correctly

The laws generally don't deny transgender healthcare

An Alberta Judge decided the laws deny transgender healthcare with a "notwithstanding clause"

A court case is challenging the clause use here

The people behind the case want to Amend their challenge

and a Judge has denied the request?

Kind of feels like a string of double negatives. Alberta teens can not not not not not get healthcare.

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Smith decided she knows better than the WHO and WPATH so she used the notwidthstanding clause preventing health care of minors who are Trans or Gender Diverse. The organizations that the judge denied where fighting the use of the notwidstanding clause.