Judge rules challenge of Saskatchewan’s pronoun law can proceed

A choose has dominated a courtroom problem can proceed over the Saskatchewan authorities’s regulation requiring parental consent for kids below 16 who wish to change their names or pronouns in school.

Justice Michael Megaw says courtroom can hear the problem surrounding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms even when the Charter’s however clause has been invoked.

Lawyers for UR Pride, an LGBTQ group in Regina, urged Megaw final month to permit the problem, arguing the regulation limits the rights of gender-diverse youth who’re entitled to a protected academic setting.

Lawyers for the Saskatchewan authorities urged the choose to dismiss the problem on the grounds the regulation doesn’t breach the Charter and is in the very best curiosity of gender-diverse youngsters.

The province says the Charter wasn’t breached as a result of Premier Scott Moe’s authorities used the however clause to enact the regulation.

The however clause is a hardly ever used measure that lets governments override sure Charter rights for 5 years.