UCP to debate transgender policies at annual general meeting [Video]

Alberta’s United Conservative Party members will soon debate 35 policy resolutions that include banning transgender people from women’s washrooms, prohibiting non-binary gender identifiers on government documents, and ensuring trans medical treatments are not publicly funded.

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The party’s annual general meeting begins Nov. 1 in Red Deer, where Premier Danielle Smith’s leadership will also be up for review.

It’s being billed by the party as the largest political convention in Canadian history, with at least 5,428 UCP members registered to attend.

Party policies are non-binding on the government, and member approval doesn’t guarantee the ideas will become law.

Kristopher Wells, Canada Research Chair for the public understanding of sexual and gender minority youth at MacEwan University, said Smith needs to condemn the resolutions as discriminatory, unconstitutional and dangerous.

“When you don’t denounce it, you enable it,” …