Erring on the side of ruining kids’ lives
Labour continues to ignore women.
Labour has pledged to ban conversion therapy despite fears it could stop children who are questioning their gender from getting help. The party unveiled a “fully trans-inclusive ban” in their plans on Thursday, which would come into force should they succeed in the polls.
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The Labour Party’s manifesto included a section describing legislation around conversion practices as “a very complex issue”. The document stated: “So-called conversion therapy is abuse – there is no other word for it – so Labour will finally deliver a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices, while protecting the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity.”
If “conversion therapy” is “so-called” then how is Labour so certain that it’s “abuse”?
The trick of course is to pretend that therapy for gender-confused children is the same as homophobic pseudo-therapy with the goal of talking kids out of being gay.
Following the Conservatives’ rejection earlier this week, Helen Joyce, director of advocacy for Sex Matters, said the Tories had heeded “growing evidence” that the ban would be “harmful”.
“The Conservatives’ decision not to pursue a ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ reflects growing evidence that such measures are unnecessary and even harmful,” she said. “Abuse perpetrated under the guise of healthcare or therapy is already illegal.” Ms Joyce added: “It is by now well established that most children feeling gender distress or convinced of an opposite-sex identity will grow out of this during puberty. It is hard to see how a conversion therapy ban could be framed so as to avoid outlawing the supportive, open-ended approach recommended in the recent Cass Review.”
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Kate Barker, Chief Executive, LGB Alliance said: “This is a dark day for young LGB people. As the Cass Review noted, 89 per cent of girls and 81 per cent of boys experiencing gender distress are same-sex attracted. Therapists should not be criminalised for exploring the reasons someone feels uncomfortable in their body, including internalised homophobia and autism. If this manifesto promise becomes law, it will exert a chilling effect on professionals and drive more young people to undertake medical procedures with profound, irreversible and lifelong consequences.”
On the upside, we’ll see more women with hairy armpits on the covers of fashion mags.
How is it that elected representatives can’t see, or admit, that “gender affirming care” is drugging and mutilating kids out of being gay; that it’s conversion therapy with extreme prejudice? What price faux progressivism?
YNNB: probably because these days, most of them are heterosexual and self-identify as “gay trans boys” and “teenage trans lesbians”
Here’s the full text of the manifesto on the Labour Party website. The relevant passage is on page 89:
This is followed by a promise to
Translation:
You are free to explore your gender identity, but everybody you talk to is only allowed to confirm your belief that you are the other sex and not to ask whether you might be o.k. with your actual biological sex.
I am not sure why this is apparently so difficult to understand. Everybody (I think) can come up with a description of a gender non conforming child in their mind. The likely options are that the kid will grow up to be gay, and keep not conforming; straight and non conforming; straight and more conforming (because for some kids it is a stage they go through); or lately, “trans”. Out of those four likely options, three will want their bodies intact and fully functional, and some of the fourth category will too. But all those kids are likely to be treated as the subset of category four that want blockers, cross sex hormones, and surgeries. All of those things make life harder, period, but especially if you’re trying to get on with life in any of the other categories.
It’s absolutely shocking that the conclusions that child comes to depends on what teaching/media/culture/content the child is exposed to (which these days leans heavily towards trans conclusions), which professionals the child is exposed to (which here, with these laws, are having their hands tied) and their friends and family, which are also struggling in the current culture.
But simply, whether or not your body works as nature intended when you grow up really shouldn’t hinge on what you thought when you were a child. Period.
Well put.
Very well put indeed, Arcadia.
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