You’d think the Times would know how to report on this subject accurately.
Tory rebels seek ban on conversion therapy
Rishi Sunak is facing a fresh Commons row after a group of Tory MPs threw their weight behind a bill to ban conversion therapy.
Former senior ministers and the first openly transgender MP are among those who have co-sponsored a private member’s bill to clamp down on the practice.
Sunak backed away from the long-promised ban on attempts to change someone’s sexuality and gender identity by not including it in his King’s Speech last month.
Sexual orientation is one thing and “gender identity” is very much another. That means reporting shouldn’t talk about “conversion therapy” as if it applied to both.
The bill will ban conversion practices where the “predetermined purpose is to change or suppress a person’s sexuality, or change or suppress a person to or from being transgender”.
Two different things. Mashing them together a disastrous mistake. Go back; redo.
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All part of the forced teaming plan. Transactivists successfully branded “watchfull waiting” as conversion therapy in Canada, too. I remember writing my MP about this when a similar “conversion therapy” bill lumped both together here. I explained the differences between the two concepts, and the danger posed by “transing away the gay,” and she still wrote back saying how “proud” she was to have supported the bill. I wrote about it here in Miscellany Room 6: https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2020/miscellany-room-6/#comment-2839219
This was her response at the time. She either didn’t read my letter, or chose not to respond to the points I made. (I never bothered with a follow-up.) Bolding mine.
JFC. The whole concept of “transness” is built upon the idea that there is something wrong with an individual that needs to be fixed. How much more “wrong” can one be than being “born in the wrong body?”
Interesting bit of wording in that bill, though. I’d argue that a great deal of therapy young kids are receiving these days has a “predetermined purpose is to change … a person to … being transgender”. I wonder if the advocates will catch the danger to them there. Tavistock, for instance, was absolutely guilty of pushing transition with scarcely any actual analysis.
Yes, Freemage, but are they suppressing them to being transgender? Or are they inspiring them? Suppressing is something only the baddies do – and they do it in all directions.