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www.transgendertrend.com/guide-government-conversion-therapy-consultation/
Excellent guidance here from Transgender Trend to assist in directly responding to the UK Government Conversion Therapy Consultation.
You can cut and paste most of it and/or add you own comments on the link.”
[megaz] “Correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the gender issue is separate from conversion therapy. From my understanding, conversion therapy is where they try (and fail) to change someone's sexuality. What has that got to do with trans issue? I am a gay male and I want that banned understandably as everyone should be allowed to be straight, bi, gay etc.”
No, megaz, that’s the very problem. If this were just about banning conversion therapy for gay, lesbian and bi-sexual people there would be no issue. Virtually no one would disagree.
What has happened is that being Lesbian, Gay, and Binary have been conflated with being Trans for the purposes of the bill.
Perhaps another poster can better explain and possibly the LGB Alliance has written about this.
It would be terrible if talking therapies were effectively banned in relation to young people who feel they are trans.
This bill is like a Trojan horse for bringing the transgender agenda under the radar until it is fixed in law. But there is too much confusion at present regarding unbiased research, or the legal definitions of the terms used, and the bill is being rushed through on this wrong basis.
Trans should be treated as an entirely separate issue at another stage.
Children and young people who are gender non-conforming need access to talking therapies to explore their feelings of dissonance with their biological sex without instant affirmation, puberty blockers, or a planned progression to surgeries, while they grow up. Many gender non-conforming young people with gender dysphoria may have faced sexual abuse or other traumas, be autistic, feel socially isolated or ‘different’, be gay but have subconsciously taken in homophobia from their family or peers, or even have been influenced by peer pressure into rapid onset dysphoria.
In some cases becoming trans gender even is a way of making a gay child appear heterosexual.
Given the chance for talking therapy, in many cases, gender non-conforming or gender dysphoric children, will desist from being transgender once they are adults. Some will be gay, some not. None will have undergone life changing, damaging interventions.
Should they still feel they are transgender as adults then they will have had the chance to be sure.