Not content with using the notwithstanding clause to strip 50,000 teachers of their rights, the UCP government is preparing to go even further at the end of this month. This time, they’re targeting young women.

The Fairness and Safety in Sport Act imposes sweeping, ideologically driven controls over Alberta’s post-secondary institutions, singling out a single, vulnerable population with new barriers that threaten to disrupt lives, and overturn privacy laws and human rights legislation far beyond provincial borders.

It began quietly this summer when Alberta’s Ministry of Tourism and Sport ordered all universities and colleges to adopt a policy that would require any young woman who wants to play on a varsity or intramural team to prove she was “biologically female” at birth.

The edict by

See Full Page