On Monday 3rd November, the joint committee of MPs and peers examining the draft Conversion Practices Bill held its second evidence session. It heard from two witnesses, both speaking in favour of the bill: Jayne Ozanne, a deputy (elected member) of the parliament of Guernsey and founder of the Ban Conversion Therapy (BTC) coalition, and Ian Smith, founder and chief executive of Helpu Cymru, a Welsh men’s mental-health organisation.
The challenge is that this bill is not ONLY about sexual orientation. If it was, it would be a much easier sell. HOWEVER, when a girl comes home from school, a child who may be bullied, a tomboy, an autistic child (all areas where a girl's self-esteem is pummeled) and thinks that life would be better as a boy, that she doesn't "feel" like other girls, or want to do what other girls do, and doesn't even like pink - this bill will make it illegal for her mother to tell her, "Don't worry honey you will grow out of it, these years are the toughest on girls because you are heading into puberty, which is just hell and needs to be endured. But at the end of it all, once you are a grown up women, this shit will be a dim memory. In the meantime, if you still feel bad about it all, let's go see a therapist and see if she can help you feel better about yourself."
The need for clarity is imperative. The apparent purpose of the bill is to outlaw abusive practices aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. But regarding "gender identity," this is not a satisfactorily defined concept.
Once that concept is clear, we will be able to state unequivocally that outlawing abusive practices aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity is correct. But we will also be able to avoid the trap.
Because what trans activists are actually seeking to outlaw is something else: they want to penalize parents and therapists who oppose the "medicalization" derived from a pathological belief: trans ideation. That is, the belief that people with atypical psychosexual traits (effeminate men, masculine women; gays, lesbians, and bisexuals) were born in the wrong body, and that to be happy in life they need to undergo procedures to make them appear to be of the other sex.
What they seek is to prevent parents and therapists from helping their children and patients accept their atypical gender identity—which does not need to be changed—and from preventing the "medicalization" of their bodies (a euphemism that hides the terrible harms of these interventions: osteoporosis, sexual insensitivity, infertility, and even death).
Trans activists have repeatedly insisted that "misgendering" is a form of abuse, but it is unclear what they mean by that. People's gender must be respected and no attempt should be made to change it. But attempts should not be made to change sex characteristics either! (They do not oppose this; they encourage it).
Is this bill necessary? Only if what it seeks to prohibit is what previous laws did not include. So, yes: procedures to alter the sex characteristics of gender-atypical people should also be punishable.
This makes it absolutely clear that the proponents of the Bill want virtually everyone who is gender critical and states their views to be criminalised. All of us are in the frame not just parents!!!
So “they’re telling you that there is something wrong with you”. Boy picks up a toy that is stereotypically a girls toy…” oh there’s something wrong with you, you’re obviously born in the wrong body”.
Do they not see the blatant contradictory bullshit??!
The challenge is that this bill is not ONLY about sexual orientation. If it was, it would be a much easier sell. HOWEVER, when a girl comes home from school, a child who may be bullied, a tomboy, an autistic child (all areas where a girl's self-esteem is pummeled) and thinks that life would be better as a boy, that she doesn't "feel" like other girls, or want to do what other girls do, and doesn't even like pink - this bill will make it illegal for her mother to tell her, "Don't worry honey you will grow out of it, these years are the toughest on girls because you are heading into puberty, which is just hell and needs to be endured. But at the end of it all, once you are a grown up women, this shit will be a dim memory. In the meantime, if you still feel bad about it all, let's go see a therapist and see if she can help you feel better about yourself."
The need for clarity is imperative. The apparent purpose of the bill is to outlaw abusive practices aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. But regarding "gender identity," this is not a satisfactorily defined concept.
Once that concept is clear, we will be able to state unequivocally that outlawing abusive practices aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity is correct. But we will also be able to avoid the trap.
Because what trans activists are actually seeking to outlaw is something else: they want to penalize parents and therapists who oppose the "medicalization" derived from a pathological belief: trans ideation. That is, the belief that people with atypical psychosexual traits (effeminate men, masculine women; gays, lesbians, and bisexuals) were born in the wrong body, and that to be happy in life they need to undergo procedures to make them appear to be of the other sex.
What they seek is to prevent parents and therapists from helping their children and patients accept their atypical gender identity—which does not need to be changed—and from preventing the "medicalization" of their bodies (a euphemism that hides the terrible harms of these interventions: osteoporosis, sexual insensitivity, infertility, and even death).
Trans activists have repeatedly insisted that "misgendering" is a form of abuse, but it is unclear what they mean by that. People's gender must be respected and no attempt should be made to change it. But attempts should not be made to change sex characteristics either! (They do not oppose this; they encourage it).
Is this bill necessary? Only if what it seeks to prohibit is what previous laws did not include. So, yes: procedures to alter the sex characteristics of gender-atypical people should also be punishable.
Excellent piece, guys.
This makes it absolutely clear that the proponents of the Bill want virtually everyone who is gender critical and states their views to be criminalised. All of us are in the frame not just parents!!!
Have cross posted
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-trojan-horse-bill-part-10
Dusty
So “they’re telling you that there is something wrong with you”. Boy picks up a toy that is stereotypically a girls toy…” oh there’s something wrong with you, you’re obviously born in the wrong body”.
Do they not see the blatant contradictory bullshit??!
Pathetic evidence and a completely captured pair. Their vocabulary is straight from Stonewalls playback.
Ozanne and Smith provide personal stories where they actually sought and supported what the church was doing??? What…how is that abusive?