Overview

• Regulations bar Alberta residents aged 12 or older who are transgender from competing in female amateur sports.
• Out-of-province transgender athletes remain eligible to compete in Alberta due to jurisdictional limits.
• Enforcement relies on a complaint-driven process requiring athletes to present birth-registration proof with alternative documents reviewed case by case.
• Advocacy group Egale warns the validation process constitutes a “gross violation” of privacy and amounts to a complaint-based “snitch line” for policing gender.
• Local sports organizations say they did not request the ban, question its necessity and note practical challenges in creating coed divisions despite proposed grant expansions.