{"id":6864,"date":"2025-10-19T05:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/?page_id=6864"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:38:19","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_blog_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_pb_posts et_pb_bg_layout_light \">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_ajax_pagination_container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<article id=\"post-6871\" class=\"et_pb_post clearfix et_pb_no_thumb et_pb_blog_item_0_0 post-6871 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news category-public-statements\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"entry-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/albertastatement2025\/\">Statement from the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH) on the Alberta Government\u2019s Anti-Trans Legislation and the Use of the Notwithstanding Clause<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"post-meta\">by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/author\/cpath-user\/\" title=\"Posts by CPATH\" rel=\"author\">CPATH<\/a><\/span> | <span class=\"published\">Oct 19, 2025<\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/category\/public-statements\/\" rel=\"tag\">Public Statements<\/a><\/p><div class=\"post-content\"><div class=\"post-content-inner et_pb_blog_show_content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please read our full statement <a href=\"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Eng-CPATH-Alberta-statement-Oct-16-2025.pdf\">here<\/a>, et <a href=\"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fr-CPATH-Alberta-statement-Oct-16-2025.pdf\">en fran\u00e7ais<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH) strongly condemns the Alberta government\u2019s ongoing legislative attacks on transgender, Two Spirit, and gender diverse (TTGD) people through the recent <em>Education Amendment Act<\/em>, <em>Fairness and Safety in Sport Act<\/em>, and<em> Health Statutes Amendment Act<\/em>. We likewise condemn Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s threat to invoke the notwithstanding clause to prevent constitutional challenge of these laws. While these pieces of legislation were introduced over a year ago, this new step represents a deeply troubling escalation and attempt to entrench discriminatory laws by suspending the Charter rights of TTGD people and their families. These measures would limit students\u2019 ability to use their chosen names and pronouns in schools; exclude TTGD girls and women from sports; and prevent supportive parents from helping their children access necessary medical care, like puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and transition-related surgery for minors. CPATH warns that these actions are not only harmful to TTGD individuals and especially youth, but threaten the foundational principles of rights and freedoms for everyone in Canada. If the rights of one group can be set aside today, the rights of all Canadians are at risk tomorrow. CPATH affirms that gender-affirming care is safe, evidence-based, and life-saving, and stands with allied organizations and advocates in opposing this legislation, supporting legal challenges, and defending the dignity, health, and autonomy of transgender, Two-Spirit, and gender diverse people and their families.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<div><div class=\"pagination clearfix\">\n\t<div class=\"alignleft\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"alignright\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6864","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6864\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}