It seems we can never have clarity or precision or accuracy in this discussion now. PBS shows us why right in the headline.
Supreme Court rules against Colorado’s ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ kids | PBS News
But what is conversion therapy for LGBTQ kids? Nothing. It can’t be anything, because those 5 items are not identical. T is not the same as L or G, or L and G. They are, in fact, opposites. L and G are real categories, easily specified. T is a destructive invasive fiction.
I suppose the perceived connection is that some gay men lean girly while others don’t, and some lesbians lean butch while others don’t. Rachel Maddow assures us that her wife wears skirts, never trousers. But…you know…the gap between that and actually being F or M because skirts or trousers is enormous. If Trump rocks up to the camera, takes his ugly blue trousers off, and puts on an ugly blue skirt, he doesn’t then become a woman.
An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard that few laws pass.
It’s the latest in a line of recent cases in which the justices have backed claims of religious discrimination while taking a skeptical view of LGBTQ rights.
But, again, they shouldn’t be bundled together. LGB rights are different from purported T rights. (What Q rights are is anyone’s guess.) The right to love, marry, have sex with, raise children with same sex people is not the same as the purported right to be treated as the sex one is not in all circumstances.
Being able to talk sensibly about this subject would be a lot easier if the news media would stop framing it so dishonestly.
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