Advice LGBTQ2S+ Elders Have for Youth Today – The Tyee

July 15 , 2025

Hard-won battles are being relitigated. Here’s what the people who fought them first say we should do.

From three anti-trans bills in Alberta to limits on name changes from the B.C. government, laws disproportionately affecting the LGBTQ2S+ community are on the rise in Western Canada.

But Canada isn’t the only country trying to walk back rights for vulnerable communities. A wave of laws targeting the health and safety of transgender and non-binary folks have made their way through courts in the United States and the United Kingdom, too.

For some elders in the LGBTQ2S+ community, this backlash is all too familiar. We checked in with LGBTQ2S+ elders living in Western Canada who helped make positive change in their communities to see how they’re feeling right now and what advice they’d have for youth facing similar battles today.

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