The Orchard

The Orchard

Share this post

The Orchard
The Orchard
How the UCP paved the way for the nation-wide assault on trans students' rights
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More

How the UCP paved the way for the nation-wide assault on trans students' rights

There's a direct line between Jason Kenney promoting parental notification for gay-straight alliances, and the ugly anti-trans policies of Blaine Higgs and Scott Moe.

Jeremy Appel's avatar
Jeremy Appel
Oct 04, 2023
∙ Paid
9

Share this post

The Orchard
The Orchard
How the UCP paved the way for the nation-wide assault on trans students' rights
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
1
4
Share
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney greets New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs — the first premier to take up Kenney’s mantle of rolling back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in schools. (Facebook/Jason Kenney)

In my forthcoming book, Kenneyism: Jason Kenney’s Pursuit of Power, I detail how remarkably successful Kenney was throughout his career in inching the Canadian political dial rightwards.

Nowhere has this been more apparent in recent months than with New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs’ and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s all-out assault on transgender kids’ right to exist under the pretext of inalienable “parental rights.”

It was Kenney, as Alberta premier, who first proposed and passed legislation limiting the rights of 2SLGBTQ+ students in schools, using the precise rhetoric Higgs and Moe use today.

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to The Orchard to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Jeremy Appel
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share

Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More