www.thetimes.co.uk/article/conversion-therapy-ban-will-face-tough-opposition-k55vmtc7m anyone got a share token that works
This is in the law section of the Times this morning. The UK has seen an explosion of child referrals to gender identity clinics over the past ten years. These are children who self-harm, attempt suicide and suffer from mental illness at a disproportionate rate from the rest of the population. NHS statistics indicate that, if left alone, 80 per cent of gender dysphoric children will reconcile with their birth sex by the time they pass through puberty. It is immoral for the government to allow them to undertake a path that leads to puberty suppression and cross-hormone treatment while legislating for a criminal ban on practitioners who seek to help these children to do what most of them would anyway. Ultimately, it is not for the government to protect citizens from themselves by preventing certain people from having access to the therapy they want. The UK respects the rule of law. Paternalism is not lawfulness, and as it stands, any proposed ban looks a lot more like the latter than the former. Just a taster. Interesting the legal knots and the work of activists is causing a wake up call for the legal profession.
So much going on that it's difficult to keep up