The Alberta government has an interesting sense of irony. On Tuesday, just two days before Transgender Day of Remembrance, it overrode the constitutional rights of transgender youth in relation to three laws. 

TDoR, as the day is often called, memorializes trans people who have lost their lives to transphobia.

You can imagine the insult, then, of seeing the government take away trans minors’ right to life, liberty and security just two days before TDoR. The invocation of the notwithstanding clause comes after a judge temporarily blocked one of the three laws in June, finding that it “will cause irreparable harm to gender diverse youth.”

To invoke the notwithstanding clause in this way, just before TDoR, is an apt reminder of the lives we’ll have to mourn next year because of these laws.

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