Doctors and 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy groups challenging Alberta laws affecting transgender people say they aren't backing down, after learning the province is looking at plans to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause.

The clause allows governments to override certain sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for up to five years.

A leaked internal memo from Premier Danielle Smith's office, obtained by The Canadian Press, directs officials to apply the clause this fall to three laws that police school pronouns, female sports and gender-affirming health care.

Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo

Two of those laws are being challenged by 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy groups Egale and Skipping Stone. In one lawsuit challenging the government's ban on puberty

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