Protesters gathered in both Calgary and Edmonton Saturday to support the province’s transgender community and express their dissatisfaction with new measures proposed by Premier Danielle Smith related to the province’s student gender identity, sports and surgery policies.
In Edmonton, hundreds of activists, allies and members of the transgender community gathered at Dr. Wilbert McIntyre Park in Old Strathcona.
In Calgary, over a thousand people attended the protest in front of city hall.
Rowan Morris, who is with Trans Rights YEG, one of the groups behind the Edmonton rally, said the proposed policies are not only harmful to trans youth, but to the entire trans community in
