Laurie Blakeman in Question Period: Gender Reassignment Surgery

Laurie holds the Health Minister to account for his decision to delist gender reassignment surgery from Alberta health care.

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• GRS
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• Reassignment
• Surgery
• LGBT

[TheKittyKate1]

Liepert's position is stated in the usual bland, indirect, gender-hate speech, citing perfectly logical financial reasons (and not answering the question) why as transfolk, we have no rights to live in Alberta if we want life-saving medical treatments supported by other provinces and territories in Canada. Note that only one province or territory, Northwest Territories, has so far legislated full human rights to constitutional protection based on gender.

[ArtemisEneldo]

@gopconservative78 Thought you guys were fiscal conservatives and that you were asserting this was a money issue. It make NO financial sense to initiate something that has already been found to be a Charter violation in Ontario. And if there is any effort to defend it, the defence will cost much more than just paying for the medical services deemed medically necessary by DOCTORS.  Hint: Politicians make crappy doctors.

[ArtemisEneldo]

Alberta is a wealthy province. This is about codifying discrimination into law rather than meeting a budget.

[gopconservative78]

Liberals only have 9 seats, while the PC have 72 seats and a massive majority...to hell with Liberals and their NEP crap!

[eliaspj83]

this guy was awful at ansering the questions here is allot more then 26 folks who are looking to have surgeries WTF ...pardon my manner but U did a great job laurie...........

bennjamin

[JenniferPoco]

Hi Laurie, you did a great job asking these questions. it amazes me that the Government would chose to go down a path that has already proven failure in Ontario. This will lead to Human Rights Cases and the Government will lose. Ultimately, it should be doctors, not politicians, that decide which surgeries are mandatory for patients and which ones aren't. for this matter, it needs to be a case by case basis with Government paying for any surgery deemed needed by doctors...

[pentica]

is the guy high?, i am very good at reading people and the responses he is making suggest to me that hes been on something before the meeting.

only time i have seen someone so apprehensive was the last time i caught someone at my work high while i was supervising. honestly would not surprise me if he was on cocaine or something.

[leslea001]

Makes a person wonder if the Mr Liepert took classes in avoiding answering questions. He didn't answer even ONE question with a clear or concise reply.

Let's hope his comments come back to haunt him when the court cases go forward!

L