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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks in Edmonton in 2024. The provincial government's Fairness and Safety in Sport Act bans trans children 12 and older from participating in female-only sports in schools or private leagues.

Starting this school year in Alberta , anyone who suspects that a child playing sports in any female-only league is not actually a female can file a formal challenge with the relevant board.

The challenge can be made confidentially, which protects the identity and integrity of the applicant but obviously not the athlete, who will have to prove that she is indeed eligible to play under the province’s new Fairness and Safety in Sport Act . Her proof must come in the form of a birth registration document, but not a birth certificate, since sex on a provinci

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