- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Adoption✔ Legal
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- MilitaryN/A
- Age of Consent✖ Unequal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1969)
(since Jan 1, 1969)
Legal
under the criminal law amendment act.
Current status
(since Jul 20, 2005)
(since Jul 20, 2005)
Legal
The Civil Marriage Act was passed at a federal level, overriding provincial marriage law.
Current status
(since Apr 23, 2014)
(since Apr 23, 2014)
Legal, surgery not required
Application requires a letter from a psychiatrist, a commissioned for oaths letter from the applicant, and $20. The Vital Statistics Act's surgical requirement was defeated in court.
Current status
(since Mar 10, 2015)
(since Mar 10, 2015)
Illegal
In Bill 10, a bill ensuring the right of students to form gay-straight alliances in Alberta schools, amendments were added before it was passed adding protection of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to the Alberta Bill of Rights. Bill 10 goes into effect on June 1, 2015.
The Alberta Human Rights Act has not yet been explicitly modified to include gender identity and gender expression, though they continue to be read in implicitly by the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
The Alberta Human Rights Act has not yet been explicitly modified to include gender identity and gender expression, though they continue to be read in implicitly by the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
Illegal in some contexts
There remains no explicit protection of transgender people under the Act, though the Alberta Human Rights Commission reads in transgender rights under "gender".
Current status
(since Oct 1, 2017)
(since Oct 1, 2017)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under the Bill 7 of Alberta legislature. As well under Bill C-16.
Sexual orientation only
Sexual orientation is officially a protected group. While not explicit in the law, the Alberta Human Rights Commission reads in transgender rights under "gender", but lengthy tribunal process makes this implicit protection inaccessible to many Albertans.
Current status
(since Oct 1, 2017)
(since Oct 1, 2017)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Since June 1, 2015. Also under Bill C-16. As well there is a hate crime unit investigating complaints.
Sexual orientation only
Sexual orientation has been explicitly protected since 2009 in the Alberta Human Rights Act. Gender identity is read-in by the Alberta Human Rights Commission under "gender" though it is not explicit in the Act, however a lengthy tribunal process makes this implicit protection inaccessible to many Albertans.
Current status
Banned (1-year deferral)
from the Canadian blood services website. Legalization pending.
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