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??? How is this conversion therapy?Once again the party is showing its true colors, instead of realizing that they need to be much more INCLUSIVE, they are looking here to fire up their base, as they absorb the election losses of last November.. looks like they will continue to not matter much.....
Anti-LGBTQ legislation is flooding state legislatures as Republicans return to their familiar strategy of demonizing marginalized populations to mobilize their base following recent election losses.
There are more than 200 such bills currently under consideration by state legislatures, according to the Human Rights Campaign. More than ever before, one specific group is the focus of much of the unwanted attention: transgender children. More than half of the anti-LGBTQ bills under consideration directly target the transgender community.
“It’s the most anti-trans legislation ever, and this time around, it is all uniformly directed at children,” Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), told HuffPost.
Sam Brinton, vice president of advocacy and government at The Trevor Project (a crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ youth, which runs a crisis hotline), said it’s clear from the calls they’re receiving that many LGBTQ youth are struggling.
“Compared to pre-COVID crisis contacts, we are, at times, receiving in this last year double that volume of crisis contacts,” they said.
Brinton clarified that the spikes in calls aren’t solely related to politics, but said that the bills are adding more anxiety to an already fraught situation.
GOP pushing conversion therapy bills again.
??? How is this conversion therapy?
My charater is just fine thank you, but you should be very worried by whats' left of your party.Really awful that conservatives have the gall to fight back.
Against what??????
(Also the thread title is, obviously, a lie. Which tells you something about the character of the person who posted it.)
It's nice to see Republicans trying to defend children from the left's satanic practices. They'll fail in all probability, but it's worth trying.My charater is just fine thank you, but you should be very worried by whats' left of your party.
.... ****... these representatives are promoting torture and sexual abuse which is what so called conversion therapy is.Aside from those two categories, there is a quieter effort underway in a few states to proactively protect so-called conversion therapy, which attempts to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The move is rattling LGBTQ equality advocates, who say it is unprecedented and represents a new tactic on the right.
“This is the first time we’re actually seeing pro-conversion therapy laws be introduced, assigned to committees and get hearings, then passing out of committees,” said Mathew Shurka, a survivor of conversion therapy and a co-founder of NCLR’s Born Perfect campaign, which is dedicated to ending the practice. “That’s never happened before since the movement started with the first law [banning conversion therapy] that was introduced in 2012 in California.”
I read the links to the four states where they said it was pro-conversion therapy. At worst, they prevent localities from making counseling illegal.Aside from those two categories, there is a quieter effort underway in a few states to proactively protect so-called conversion therapy, which attempts to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The move is rattling LGBTQ equality advocates, who say it is unprecedented and represents a new tactic on the right.
“This is the first time we’re actually seeing pro-conversion therapy laws be introduced, assigned to committees and get hearings, then passing out of committees,” said Mathew Shurka, a survivor of conversion therapy and a co-founder of NCLR’s Born Perfect campaign, which is dedicated to ending the practice. “That’s never happened before since the movement started with the first law [banning conversion therapy] that was introduced in 2012 in California.”
the "left's satanic practices"????????It's nice to see Republicans trying to defend children from the left's satanic practices. They'll fail in all probability, but it's worth trying.
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