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Publication Date: January 26, 2026 - 06:00

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Advocacy groups to argue Alberta transgender legislation amounts to criminal prohibition

January 26, 2026

Advocacy groups are attempting a new legal strategy to combat an Alberta law that prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming health care to transgender youth – legislation the provincial government has shielded with the Charter’s notwithstanding clause,

Last June, Egale Canada, Skipping Stone Foundation and five youth and their parents won a court injunction to put a pause on the law as they pursued a legal challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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