Absolutely. I think, first and foremost, that if we look to what's happening in the U.S., there's a trajectory that plays out. There's a playbook being used here, and it often starts with trans kids in the classroom and this misinformation around litter boxes. Then it jumps to transpeople and young folks as health care. Then it becomes the precedent of governments restricting the ability of parents to get their kids the health care that is recommended by their family physicians, which is what we're seeing in Alberta. If we did that on any other kind of care, we would see outrage across the political spectrum. However, we've seen silence from certain sides of the political spectrum because it's about trans kids. Just after that policy was introduced or alluded to by Premier Smith, you saw pro-life organizations leaning in further. When Mr. Lamrock alluded to mail-ins in New Brunswick, those were paid for by Campaign Life Coalition, the anti-abortion lobby, who are playing a long game here to restrict the access for trans kids to their health care and to set a precedent to remove bodily autonomy from women and gender-diverse people with regard to other forms of health care, too.
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