Maybe parents have too much say over 17 year olds

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre defended Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her approach to transgender issues Tuesday, saying the Liberal government and the media have demonized her for policies that would give parents more say over their kids.

Trudeau last week condemned what he called Smith’s “anti-LGBT policies” and said such actions will worsen mental health issues and suicidal ideation among young people struggling with gender dysphoria.

Poilievre suggested that the federal government and the media are shying away from talking about Smith’s other policies, which deal with sensitive medical decisions that have become a lightning rod for debate in Canada and south of the border.

Smith is promising a ban on so-called “top” and “bottom” surgeries for minors aged 17 and under, a practice that’s very rare in Canada because it goes against the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)'s standards of care.

Alberta NDP MP Blake Desjarlais, who is two-spirit, said Smith is “denying trans kids their basic human rights” and restricting their access to “life-saving health care.”

The CPS says gender-affirming hormone therapy, which it says produces reversible and irreversible changes, should also only be provided to young people who “demonstrate the capacity to understand and appreciate both the benefits and risks of these medications, given their profound effects.”

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