The "test case" for anti-LGBTQ legislation in Canada
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The Pros and Cons of Blaine Higgs' Review
There are people in civil society and political spheres who are pushing back against this, but I don't know enough about the rest of the province in terms of how this is being received or not. You write that this is a test case for provinces. What does that mean and what kind of precedent is in play here? It very much appears that Higgs has bought into this moral panic around dry queens and trans people that is emanating from the US. We just had an election in Alberta and one candidate compared trans children to feces in cookie batter. That's scary. If they are looking to appease this particular voter base, we could see more of these reviews happen in order to placate them or
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