It might be ironic that a premier who doesn't use her legal first name is now the 'champion' of preventing others from using alternative names to their legally recognized first name.
I remember when Doug Ford was just Rob Ford's (mayor of Toronto) brother. I had heard that Doug went vegan or vegetarian after working in a slaughterhouse during his adolescence. During the pandemic as premier he introduced new 'Ag-gag' laws that criminalize people exposing illegal animal cruelty on farms and whatnot - doing essentially the most non-vegan/vegetarian thing one could do with their new political power.
Other than believing there's a natural social hierarchy and that they're at the top of it, Conservatives don't have principles as far as I can tell, or at least they're incredibly hypocritical, or they believe in-group vs out-group status matters above all else. I find them morally and rationally absurd
Regarding her name change, she's an adult, nobody cares, do whatever the fuck you want. Fuck who you want, change your name, do whatever you want to your body, literally do whatever you want. Nobody cares as long as you don't impact my life.
Conservatives know that LGBTQ is mental illness. If you are not fucking the opposite sex to make babies you have mental illness. It's literally the reason why you and I are having this conversation today. A long line of people had to fuck a lot, for us to be here today. It's why we and all other lifeforms exist, to fuck and reproduce, nothing else. If you don't want to fuck the other sex you have mental illness.
The following policies from the article:
Those include restricting transgender youth access to gender-affirming health care, banning transgender participation in female sports, and requiring parental consent or notification on sex education and changes to pronouns and names in schools.
All make sense to Conservatives.
Let kids get through the fucked up period that is between 12 and 16. It's my take that life is odd between those ages. Your body changes a lot, you do a massive amount of growing up. Let kids get through this fucked up time without making large life changes when their brains, hormones, bodies are undergoing massive changes. Kids need a space to grow without believing that mental illness is the norm. Mental illness is not the norm. Get old enough and then do literally whatever you want like I said. Nobody cares a flying fuck.
I can tell by the comments here that you all think you right and are the majority. But you are all the minority on this topic. The average person in Alberta support her policies.
What a waste of time and effort just to control people. Don't be fooled by right wing and conservative parties. They just want to control you and strip away your freedoms.
The conservative mandate: divide and distract people with fabricated social issues while transferring profits from the public to the private sector and capital losses from the private sector to the public sector (e.g., bailouts, subsidies, deregulation)