Riley Simpson has been playing softball since they were nine years old. They fell in love with the sport after watching their older sister play.

In June, their softball team won the Edmonton city championship and Riley was hoping to play on higher-level teams as they grew and got better.

In Alberta, where Riley is from, most competitive softball teams are girls' teams. This has never been a problem for Riley, who recently turned 15 years old and is non-binary, thanks to inclusive sporting policies, a co-ed mentality in softball and pre-puberty androgyny.

But the provincial government has enacted a controversial new law excluding athletes assigned male at birth from women's sports teams — known as Bill 29, or the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act — which goes into effect on Sept. 1.

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