The Government has done yet another U-turn on banning conversion therapy, and will unveil plans today to bring in a full spectrum ban. That will include any attempt to persuade trans teens from taking puberty blockers or undergoing irreversible medical procedures. The Telegraph has more on the likely backlash Rishi Sunak will face from free speech campaigners and Conservative MPs.
Rishi Sunak faces a “big backlash” if he presses ahead with a ban on trans conversion therapy which campaigners and Tory MPs say could criminalise parents, teachers and doctors.
The Government has already committed to ban therapists from pressurising gay people to be straight – a move which is entirely uncontroversial.
But over the weekend, Whitehall sources indicated that the Prime Minister wants to extend the law in order to ban the use of conversion therapy around gender transitions – where an attempt is made to persuade children who want to change their gender that they should stay as they are.
Boris Johnson rejected extending the law to cover gender identity in this way, and – on Monday night – critics said that if Mr Sunak presses ahead, it could be used to criminalise those who question children who want to change gender.
Tim Loughton, the former children’s minister, said he was concerned doctors, teachers and parents could fall foul of any new law unless it were very carefully worded.
“It certainly needs to include some dispensation when discussing transition treatment with minors or there will be a big backlash,” he said.
Maya Forstater, the co-founder of Sex Matters, said banning conversion therapy could see teachers and parents in the dock if they question a child’s desire to change gender.
The group says it means teachers could find themselves in court if they tell children they cannot use opposite-sex toilets or prevent a boy from competing in girls’ sports.
And it says parents could fall foul of the law for refusing to use the correct pronoun or for taking children abroad to avoid people pressuring them into transitioning.
Ms Forstater said: “Proponents of the plan to outlaw conversion therapy in the UK have never been able to come up with evidence that there is a contemporary practice that can and should be banned.
“Already therapists who help people work through gender issues and not become fixed on the idea that they need to alter their body to be their true self are being accused of practising ‘conversion’.
“Any proposed legislation should be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny to make sure that it does not risk criminalising thoughtful therapists, and parents and teachers who don’t believe children can be ‘born in the wrong body’, or people practising their religion.”
Damian Green, the former deputy prime minister to Theresa May, urged Mr. Sunak to be careful.
“The key is the definition of what should be outlawed,” he said. “Clearly any coercive or bullying interventions are completely unacceptable, but the definition should not be so wide that it excludes proper conversations with clinicians.
“This is an especially sensitive area when it involves children.”
In an article for the Telegraph, Kathleen Stock, a British philosopher who had to leave her university position after being targeted by trans activists, said: “Under the proposed legislation, doctors, counsellors and therapists could be forced to simply affirm any child who claimed to be trans, or face potential prosecution for attempting to change the child’s identity.”
Worth reading in full – and you can read Kathleen Stock’s comment piece about the proposed bill here.
Stop Press: Kemi Badenoch, who in her capacity as Minister for Women and Equalities will be tasked with introducing the Bill, is planning to write a letter setting our her reservations about a blanket ban on conversion therapy. According to the Telegraph, “She will warn that legitimate conversations between parents and trans children must not be outlawed and that freedom of religion must be protected.”
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hahahaha
and people wonder why we say it’s not really freedom.
Freedom is just some people talking
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So a vaccine that requires protection from the virus it’s supposed to be protecting people against, isn’t much of a vaccine.
But I thought all BBC staff were given their very own electronic tag to maintain unsocial distancing earlier this year? https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/bbc-coronavirus-employees-wear-proximity-tags-social-distancing-820967
And I often think the government has been offering “little incentives” to businesses to keep pushing the bloody mask mandate!
I just went to pick something up at an optician.
The (not very smart) front office staff are literally behaving as though every visitor could kill them. The door is locked and they are all masked plus with gloves. They even look scared.
I chose not to go in. Too dystopian.
Anyway, I heard the most scary thing (for me) so far in this mess. I asked one of them when she thought this might end. I was trying to get her to think about the fact that perhaps life needs to restart. Her response was that she thinks this will be for the rest of our lives.
A large group of people is seriously brain washed by the media images and (I believe) will never snap out of this.
Agree about the brainwashing, Stephen. If people continue to wear masks when they don’t have to, it begs the question when will they feel safe enough to go without ?
Some will wear them permanently, except, perhaps, in their own home. Some Gov’t radio ads telling people they don’t need to wear a mask outdoors in 30 degree heat right now would be good, to get a semblance of common sense.
Talking of ads has anyone else noticed that the radio ads that were being played every twenty minutes re covid have reduced to almost nothing?
You still haven’t got this. The taxpayer funded ads will continue to instill fear.
The muzzle can possibly still have a use to protect the uninjected against the spike spit spray from the injected lab rats.
pine needle tea, I heard…
You should have told her that if she had been vaccinated, it might be a very short life. Give her something to REALLY think about.
Brain dead more like.
Not just our lives but of those who come after us.
This was precisely what the government wanted when it started this mad policy of lockdown back in March 2020. The MSM has gone along completely with this idiocy; few people holding the rational and opposite view have been allowed anywhere near either the MSM or any governmental site . I have yet to hear mention of the GBD. Some have been so terrified that they are mentally ill and it will take a lot to convince them that their terror is ridiculous and ill founded, encouraged by biased so called “experts” ( if they are experts, it’s mostly not in epidemiology or virology) purely in the interests of them keeping their power over the population.
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I thought the standard symbol of cowardice was a white feather, not a lanyard.
Next week is going to be hilarious. Got no idea what any of the guidance & proclamation’s are now. I wonder if the true Covidian’s do too lmfao.
In England it’s basically wear a mask if you want, except for public transport on TFL in London and some other transport areas where regional Mayors have got involved. None of it has any law behind it, so no fines. They can only ask you to leave, and if you are exempt, you should be left in peace. I’ve no doubt Sadiq Khan’s ‘Enforcement Officer’ goons and others around the country will be heavy-handed for the first few weeks, as they probably won’t be properly trained. I don’t think many shops, entertainment venues will police this now, they’ve lost enough revenue already.
I am 74, fully vaccinated and had a major, life saving op in Dec 2020 from which I have fully recovered. I have no intention of wearing a mask on buses, in shops, in pubs. Recently I did a boat trip, on deck, in then open air, and had to mask up. Breathing my own stuffy air was far more damaging than breathing the fresh sea air. And being forced against my will and against common sense to wear a mask is far more damaging for my stress levels than the “fear” of covid. I agree about loss of revenue – most businesses have been unnecessarily locked down as it is.
Regarding the BBC, I think it’s going to be unworkable in a lot of offices. They will either need to stick to corona safety nonsense, and those who don’t like it will have to put up with it or stay away, or they will have to get back to normal and the frightened or those who disapprove will have to stay away. Having a mixture in one place will just lead to a lot of unpleasantness.
Regarding the gyms, it’s all in keeping with the government’s very clever move to outsource impositing and enforcement of restrictions so they can appear to be giving freedom of choice. It’s especially evil.
Not that it would make much difference, but I would like to see the LS editorial team and TY formally recognise that the PM and senior leadership are our enemies, not our friends, and that they are irredeemable.
Wouldn’t white feathers be more appropriate?
If BBC staff are not returning to work until September as the Telegraph article states they needn’t worry. WFH home will be back by then.
I would have though a small rubber chicken on a necklace would do it.
A white lanyard eh?
What was it women gave to menfolk who would not enlist during WW1?
Ah, I remember, a white feather which denoted cowardice; at the BBC?
How appropriate.
I note a BBC spokesman declaring the importance of “the small steps… needed to keep critical public services on air.”
I suspect most would prefer the BBC did nothing which in itself would be a massive boost to public health.
4 BBC staffers get into a lift.
One has a transgender lanyard.
One has a social distancing lanyard.
Another has a Carbon Zero lanyard.
The last has free Palestine lanyard.
No one makes eye contact.
Nobody gets out alive!
Instead of a lanyard, it would be more fun for everyone if they wore a red nose.
No it certainly isn’t freedom. But then none of us believed it would be.
“Critical public services”?!
Blimey, I like that!
To hell with the cattle scum.
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There’s a surprise BBC workers don’t want to return to work. They continue to spout their propaganda from home.
Muzzle, muzzle and muzzle…you no longer have a voice on ‘freedom day’ there, there, be good children and muzzle up
Or you could use your muzzle as toilet paper!
Are people really ‘scared’ to go to work or are they just lazy sods?
Might dig the old yellow star out – a reminder of where this shit is at now – apartheid by proxy – Lee Jones at summit yesterday was spot in in terms of the ‘outsourcing’ of controls / protocols – let the publican or the gym owner be the enforcer – like self censorship by stealth this is the most corrosive of all tactics – setting humans upon humans – I need to get the F out of here
Twats
Wouldn’t it be a good idea if all of the BBC presenters and journalists just stayed at home indefinitely? Most of us are sick of their COVID propaganda.
Why don’t they ALL decide to work elsewhere and save millions of us the licence fee? Would we miss their brand of bias?
If the ceilings at the BBC are more than 2 metres high (which they will be of course) and the lanyards are strong enough, it should be suggested to them that they could
hangfasten themselves up there, they are then out of harms way, obviously.They might just be
stupidsensible enough to take the suggestion seriously.Making them all wear white is a massive microaggression and i expect someone in HR will be getting a bollocking as a result.