LGBT In Fight For GSA Rights In Alberta

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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-press-newsalert-alberta-premier-puts-gay-youth-231101920.html

 

 

A Controversial debate in the Province of Alberta had shown up deciding over whether or not students should have the automatic right to set up a GSA club or if they had to get permission from the School administrators to do it (which would deny students in some schools from doing it if the Principal for instance did not approve of it for instance):

 

The Primier of Alberta acknowledges this bill was a mess and should never have been brought up the way it was. its uncertain now which direction it will go under

 

 

 

"I accept personal responsibility for that as the premier," Prentice told reporters at a hastily called legislature conference moments after he and his Progressive Conservative caucus met Thursday.

"I'm most disturbed that our gay and lesbian youth are caught in the middle of a very divisive debate. This they didn't ask for, and for the most part these are young people trying to find their way in life and in our province."

 

According to the Journal of Research on Adolescence, the rate of suicide among gay youth drops significantly when a school has a GSA.