Seven years
Parents who refuse to allow their children to change gender would face up to seven years in jail under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”.
Proposals published on Tuesday state that actions designed to “change or suppress” another individual’s gender identity, causing them physical or psychological harm, would become illegal under the radical law.
SNP ministers acknowledged that so-called conversion practices often took place in a “family setting”, raising the prospect that parents could be criminalised if they refuse to go along with their child’s declaration that they are transgender.
You mean if they refuse to agree that their son is a daughter or their daughter is a son.
The fact that parents are likely to have a better grasp on reality here is apparently beside the point.
“We have grave concerns that these plans will criminalise loving parents, who could face years in jail simply for refusing to sign up to the gender ideology cult,” Marion Calder, a director at the campaign group For Women Scotland, said.
And who would foster the kids while the parents are in jail? Susie Green? Jeffrey Marsh?
The law sounds like it’s very close to being recursive and self-incriminating for trans activists. They’re so close to setting off their own trap. I wonder if it could be argued that convincing someone that they have a (non-existent) gender identity would constitute “changing or suppressing” their “gender identity?” Genderists are certainly already guilty of the causing physical and psychological harm part.
Talking, watching, and waiting is “conversion.” Drugs, hormones, mutilation, and sterilization are “health care.” Thanks forced teaming!
Doubt it’ll move the needle much but might reflect on the future weakness of the SNP.
It’s so bizarre that not engaging in chemical and/or surgical intervention is considered ‘conversion’
Isn’t it!
Next they can pass a law that criminalises parents who refuse to let their children drink nothing but soft drinks and eat nothing but icecream. After all, the child knows what he/she/they/????* wants to eat and drink.
*Insert bespoke pronouns here.