Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I thank my colleague Han Dong for allowing me to spend additional time to really continue a discussion that was actually started by my colleague Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, related to products that have affected, in her instance, pregnant women. I think women in particular, or gender-diverse people, have a disproportionate impact when it comes to health products, because they're looking for products in many ways that are unique not just to their gender, but maybe even to their success in fulfilling their own identity. I think of the trans community or the two-spirit community in particular, and I think of gender-affirming surgeries for that fact.
An immense amount of products have been coming into Canada in the last 24 months related to persons who are transitioning, and we're often seeing doctors referring to non-prescription drugs in some instances to help them in their recovery. There's no labelling for this and there's no information.
I've talked to youth in GSAs across Alberta and they're scared about this fact that they don't know what they're taking and they don't understand how some of this relates to their healing process. They're really concerned mostly with hormone therapy. I know hormone therapy is something that is regulated by Health Canada, but there are other supplementary drugs that exist on the market that have to do with understanding hormones other than testosterone, for example, or estrogen.
How do we protect those groups, particularly given the gender-based analysis that Health Canada has committed to, in understanding product labelling? Is there room to ensure that there's a gender-based analysis for that labelling for particularly women in the trans community?