Sask. pronoun law: Appeal court denies anti-trans group right to intervene in constitutional dispute [Video]

Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal has denied a political group that opposes so-called “gender ideology” intervener status in a legal dispute over the province’s controversial pronoun law.

In a fiat released on Friday, three members of the province’s highest court addressed 12 applications to intervene on the case, including from the attorneys general of Alberta and New Brunswick, and ten other organizations.

The case concerns Saskatchewan’s Parents Bill of Rights, a law requiring parental consent for students under the age of 16 to change their names or pronouns while at school.

The bill also implements sweeping restrictions of sexual health education, including barring third-party health organizations and sexual assault centres from presenting in schools.

The University of Regina’s UR Pride launched a legal challenge against the rules, which began as a Ministry of Education policy in August 2023 before being introduced as a law, with the province invoking the notwithstanding clause …