Sixteen-year-old Aspen Cervo says he began thinking about a student walkout over the Alberta government’s planned policies around transgender youth right after Premier Danielle Smith announced them last week.
The Grade 10 student at Leduc Composite High School says his 13-year-old brother is transgender and the walkout Wednesday morning is meant to show him and others they’re supported.
Smith has said the fall sitting of the legislature would bring new rules, including restrictions on youth changing their names or pronouns at school and getting hormone therapy or gender affirming surgery.
She has said the goal of the policies is to ensure children are “fully
