Skate Canada's boycott of Alberta over Fairness and Safety in Sport Act is unscientific

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Skate Canada has said that it will no longer host major events in Alberta after the province banned all males — including transgender-identifying ones — from competing in female sports. This is disgraceful: female athletes should not be used as bargaining chips in an ill-advised campaign to undermine athletic fairness and sex-based rights.

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The organization, which governs figure skating in Canada, claimed that its “national standards for safe and inclusive sport” are incompatible with Alberta’s new “Fairness and Safety in Sport Act,” presumably because the latter bans transwomen from competing in female sports.

This messaging was quickly amplified by Canada’s Secretary of State (Sport) Adam van Koeverden, who published a statement supporting Skate Canada and indirectly condemning Alberta’s policies as transphobic and unscientific.

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