The Free Speech Union declares:
The FSU is disappointed that the King’s Speech included a draft bill to ban conversion therapy. Trying to force gay people to become straight is already illegal in this country, so what does the Government want to ban?
We fear Labour wants to make it a criminal offence for parents and health professionals to try to persuade gender-confused children not to embark on irreversible, life-changing medical treatment that can leave them permanently sterile and cause other lasting harms. If that is the Government’s intention, we will vigorously campaign against the bill.
There’s a crucial difference there. Being gay requires zero medical or physical intervention of any kind. It requires no action of any kind. It requires no performance. It requires no demands placed on other people. Being trans cannot claim this level of non-interference. In theory people could just announce they’re trans while continuing to look and talk like the sex they really are, but in practice we don’t see that.
In practice what we see is people, including children, making drastic permanent changes to their bodies in a doomed attempt to become the sex they are not, motivated by a loony popular fad.
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