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Advocacy Groups Fight Alberta's Gender-Affirming Health Care Ban

1/27/2026

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Advocacy groups challenge Alberta's law prohibiting gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, arguing it is a criminal prohibition, not health care regulation.
The injunction pausing the law was lifted after Premier Danielle Smith's government invoked the notwithstanding clause.
Advocacy groups are back in court seeking to reinstate the injunction and argue the law falls under federal jurisdiction, alongside Quebec's Bill 21 and its notwithstanding clause.

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Advocacy groups challenge Alberta's law prohibiting gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, arguing it is a criminal prohibition, not health care regulation.
The injunction pausing the law was lifted after Premier Danielle Smith's government invoked the notwithstanding clause.
Advocacy groups are back in court seeking to reinstate the injunction and argue the law falls under federal jurisdiction, alongside Quebec's Bill 21 and its notwithstanding clause.