Activists seek to expand the concept to any setting in which there’s dissent to the official LGBT-sanctioned approach to gender and sexuality.
The Scottish government is proposing legislation to ban so-called “conversion therapy,” which could imprison parents for up to seven years and/or fine them an unlimited amount should they oppose their child’s newly adopted “gender identity” or sexual practices.
A public consultation on the proposed laws is now open and closes on April 2.
We have already seen LGBT activists broaden the definition of “conversion therapy” from forced experiments on and physical abuse of homosexuals in clinical settings (which is already illegal) to include any clinical practice that challenges the assumptions of LGBT ideology. Now, activists seek to expand “conversion therapy” to any setting in which there’s dissent to the official LGBT-sanctioned approach to gender and sexuality.
One reason for this aggressive expansion is that “conversion therapy,” as previously understood, does not exist in modern-day Scotland. The proposal admits as much, stating that according to “those with lived experience,” the most common form of conversion practices in Scotland “is that of a series of ‘informal’ actions conducted over a period of time.”
From the legislative proposal:
We propose that a coercive course of behavior in the context of conversion practices will include acts that are:
• violent, threatening or intimidating towards the victim
• controlling of the victim’s day-to-day activities
• manipulative or pressuring the victim to act in a particular way
• frightening, humiliating, degrading or punishing of the victim
As stated, violence and abuse are already illegal, while the rest — “pressuring,” “punishing,” and “controlling” — are easily conflated with ordinary parental decision-making and discipline, especially as they relate to the parents’ values and beliefs.
To give you an idea of what we’re dealing with here, consider that the proposed legislation gives the following example of what would constitute illegal controlling behavior:
Preventing someone from dressing in a way that reflects their sexual orientation or gender identity, associating with certain people or undertaking certain activities considered to be linked to their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Let’s imagine a 15-year-old girl who identifies as nonbinary wants to dress as a prostitute and attend a transgender-themed orgy attended by adult men. Her parents tell her no. Under such legislation, would they then be prosecuted for “conversion” practices?
This legislation is utterly insane and must be rejected.