Global NewsBy Meghan Cobb Global NewsPosted January 27, 2026It’s been two weeks of care and recovery for Anna Murphy as she deals with the fact that she is still here.“I have been navigating what it is to have survived,” says Murphy. “What it is to now have to live a life I was at peace ending.”Murphy has dedicated her life to making the world more inclusive. Growing up in rural Alberta, and affirming her identity as a trans woman, sent her on a path that eventually led her back to Calgary, where she says she never went in search of the spotlight, but rather stood up for what she believes is right.[...]With a rise in online hate towards the LGBTQ2 community and three Alberta laws that target transgender youth, advocates have been warning mental health crises are on the rise. With Murphy having recently been through the health-care system, she says now is the time for more targeted support.Psychologists are seeing an increase in trans youth visiting their offices, speaking about the mental health challenges that come with currently living in Alberta.[...]“It’s not just mentally draining for them, but damaging for them, making them question their value and worth.”
And that is the goal of the right-wing conservatives, to force us back into the closet!
Skipping Stone and Egale Canada are headed back to court to try and overturn Alberta’s youth gender-affirming-care banXtra NewsBy Cody Corrall, Mel WoodsJanuary 27, 2026Advocates in Alberta are kicking off 2026 by heading back to court to challenge the Alberta government’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.And this time around, they’re trying a new tactic to circumnavigate Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause.Last June, the advocacy groups Egale Canada and Skipping Stone Foundation—on behalf of five Alberta youth and their parents—successfully won a court injunction to pause the law banning gender-affirming care for minors, arguing that the law violated trans youth’s rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, that injunction was halted after Smith’s government invoked the notwithstanding clause to force through its three anti-trans laws.
The conservatives' lies are spreading!
In their application to the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, the groups argue that because the law includes criminal penalties for doctors and other medical professionals who administer gender-affirming care to youth, it’s actually federal responsibility, and Smith and her government have no business creating criminal penalties like this.
Have you noticed something? Right-wing conservatives know these laws will be shot down in the courts, but they don’t care. They pass them anyway so they can turn around and complain about “liberal” courts striking down laws that supposedly “protect the children.” That’s the right-wing modus operandi: pass an unconstitutional law, then blame the courts.
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