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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hundreds of Alberta students staged classroom walkouts Wednesday to protest the provincial government's planned policies around transgender youth.
At 10 a.m., students left their classrooms and staged demonstrations calling for the province to reverse course on sweeping gender identity policies announced last week by Premier Danielle Smith.
About 200 students walked out of classes at Victoria School in central Edmonton and stood in protest outside the entry doors.
Outside the south-side Strathcona High School , another 60 students gathered, the crowd dotted with signs and Pride flags.
Smith says her United Conservative Party government will introduce legislation this fall to bring in new rules, including restrictions on youth changing their names or pronouns at school and getting hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgery.
Smith, in defending her proposals during a trip to Ottawa on Monday, said there is no "single voice" that can speak on behalf of the entire transgender community.
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Who's even asking for this legislation? The trans community is so small, and it comes down to personal freedom at the end of the day. The only argument I've heard against allowing young people to transition is that they might later "regret" it or something. Which other legislation do we have that is based on helping people not "regret" having made a decision? Allow people to live their lives. All they've done is bring national attention to an issue that needed no attention whatsoever.
This is a prime example of minority oppression.