Extremists of any kind are those who should never be welcome in Government. At best having government either by extremists or influenced by extremists makes the quality of life for that nation’s citizens unpleasant. At worst it leads to mass murder, starvation and forms of oppression that deeply harm a society.
The Conversion Practises Bill is clearly very heavily influenced by extremist Trans ideology. It puts the State, parts of which are already, despite the Supreme Court ruling on the primacy of biological sex, very heavily captured by the Trans ideology. If passed and given Royal Assent, this law will penalise therapists, parents, teachers and everyone else who tells a young person who is confused about their gender identity to wait and see what happens. This is also a deeply homophobic Bill as there are numerous instances of teens who identify as Trans but are in reality just Lesbians, Gays or Bisexuals who are discomforted at their same sex or both sex attraction and want to ‘cure’ it by getting on the gender transitioning train. If this Bill passes it will criminalise anyone who says to a young person ‘wait and see. It’s OK to be LGB. Being LGB does not mean that you should think you are the opposite sex’.
Here’s one short section of Ms O’Malley’s piece in Spiked Magazine.
“But, if the Conversion Practices Bill succeeds, would therapists like me be arrested for this kind of therapeutic work? In the down-is-up world we now live in, chemical conversion therapy is encouraged while psychological exploration is due to become illegal. Gay and lesbian people can medically transition, permanently altering healthy bodies in an attempt to escape their sexual orientation, yet therapists risk legal consequences for helping patients explore the psychological origins of that same distress.
The real question is remarkably simple. Should we seek to change our minds or our bodies? As a psychotherapist, I naturally begin with the mind. I believe it is better to help people accept themselves than to change healthy bodies to accommodate psychological distress. Others are more identity-based and they seek to change the body to align with an internal sense of identity. These are fundamentally different approaches and they should be debated openly. Instead, this bill places one approach beyond question and the other under legal suspicion.”
Read the entirety of Ms O’Malley’s article via the link below:
Ms O’Malley is correct. The Bill criminalises the course of action that does the least physical and psychological damage to the patient that of exploring where the gender identity issues come from and their relation to the patient’s sexuality. It’s a monstrous Bill from a monstrous Government. It is allowing extremists to dictate policy and I believe a lot of people are going to be harmed by it.
This piece also published at: https://peakd.com/britain/@mrfahrenheit211/from-elsewhere-stella-omalley-on-the-conversion-bill
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