Late last month, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a sweeping array of proposed changes that would affect transgender and non-binary youth.
Among those proposals is one that affects almost all 766,000 Kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Alberta.
Smith wants parents to opt students in to every lesson about sex education, sexual orientation or gender identity. The law right now requires one notification, and parents can opt out.
So what’s the current situation in Alberta?
Alberta’s Education Act requires school staff to give parents and guardians advance warning when a lesson, instructional material or exercise will deal “primarily and explicitly” with human sexuality or
