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Francis MacGabhann
Francis MacGabhann
2 years ago

Typical of professional politicians. They always feel they have to be seen to be “doing things”. So they do too much, and it’s always in the service of whatever is flavour of the month. Currently, that’s the gay lobby.
Personally, I don’t believe any kind of “therapy” is required, but that’s because I don’t see gay orientation as an identity. To me, it’s just a taste, the way some men prefer older women or some women like rugged looking men. It doesn’t define anything and need have no further effect on a person’s life. But hey, that’s just me. If somebody feels they need therapy, who is anyone else to say they can’t have it? Oh, wait, I forgot — the left is in control of everything in our society and they don’t actually believe in all that “personal freedom” BS they peddle to the rest of us.

Andrea X
Andrea X
2 years ago

Oh dear.
In any case, I doubt that hearing dissenting voices would have made any difference at all.

Simon Denis
Simon Denis
2 years ago
Reply to  Andrea X

Quite so. Since by presuming to “ban” a species of putative “talking cure” they are effectively criminalising conversation, one cannot imagine them welcoming dissent. Utterance is gradually being reduced to the enunciation of the latest orthodoxy followed by varieties of grovelling agreement.

Ethniciodo Rodenydo
Ethniciodo Rodenydo
2 years ago
Reply to  Simon Denis

They must have undergone some kind of conversion therapy to become liberal democrats

Jonathan Story
Jonathan Story
2 years ago

But electric shock treatment used to be state of the art. And who would have been supporting state of the art practice, ie “the science”?

ralph bell
ralph bell
2 years ago

Why was gender reassignment for teens not high on the agenda?

Andrea X
Andrea X
2 years ago
Reply to  ralph bell

Because they don’t want to ruffle any feather.

Drahcir Nevarc
Drahcir Nevarc
2 years ago

Why is it ok to (want to) change your gender, but not your race or sexual preferences?

Oliver Elphick
Oliver Elphick
2 years ago
Reply to  Drahcir Nevarc

Because the ultimate agenda is destruction of the family, so that the state (meaning the privileged in charge of the state) can control thinking. These useful idiots have no understanding of that.
The particular target is Christian teaching about sex and family, which have been steadily pulled down since the 1960s.

Last edited 2 years ago by Oliver Elphick
Drahcir Nevarc
Drahcir Nevarc
2 years ago

Slugger Moran and her colleagues are not by any stretch of the imagination liberals.

Charles Lewis
Charles Lewis
2 years ago

But the new policy implemented by the Liberal Democrats goes beyond the October 2017 Memorandum of Understanding that was supported by 21 organisations including the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Crucially, that document supported exploratory therapy when working with a client who, “wishes to explore, experiences conflict with or is in distress regarding, their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Yes, but there is, I understand, a more recent MoU where our shameful medical profession agrees that the trans-troubled child must not be offered psychological help, whcih is misleadigly termed ‘converson’ therapy. Actually, leaving the child untreated is the conversion therapy, because the child would probably have desisted and grown up gay..

Steve White
Steve White
2 years ago

Interesting. The NEU conference experienced technical difficulties when the speaker against adopting a definition of transphobia was unable to speak.

The NEU also passed a divisive motion on the trans issue.