Friday, March 12, 2021

Some psychotherapy is a crime in Canada

Under Canada law, a psychotherapist can try to convince you to be homosexual, but not heterosexual.

Quillette:

Bill C-6, which was approved in principle by Canada’s parliament last year, would serve to criminalize “any practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender.” And while the government insists that the definition of conversion therapy “does not include a practice, treatment or service that relates to a person’s gender transition or exploration or development of a person’s identity,” the law’s entire text is otherwise written in a way that suggests an individual’s announced identity corresponds to a revealed truth that cannot be challenged. Given the five-year jail term that the legislation would authorize, therapists would understandably fear that mainstream treatments might be categorized by government investigators or prosecutors as going beyond “exploration” or “development.” Even an unsuccessful prosecution could end their careers.
The above link has references to the opinions supporting this law. It claims to be based on scientific evidence, but it is not. It is all political.

Update: Germany is also going to extremes:

A new bill proposed by the German government would allow gender-confused children as young as 14 to change their first name and documented gender on government records, regardless of their parents’ wishes.
Update: Here is a Canadian father being prosecuted for opposing forced medical procedures on his 14-year-old daughter.

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