Parent Groups Concerned Over Ontario ‘Gender Affirming Health Care’ Bill

The Ontario legislature at Queen's Park in Toronto on June 18, 2021. Chris Young/The Canadian Press

Four NDP MPPs have introduced a bill seeking to expand the availability of “gender-affirming health care” in Ontario. It would mandate the creation of an advisory committee including representatives of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to advise the health minister on how to proceed.

The bill, Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act, had its first reading on Nov. 16. Since then, two parent groups have responded with concern—one with a Dec. 5 letter to the legislature criticizing the bill and another with a petition against it.