I wonder if anyone's ever made a fake conversion camp that just lets kids be themselves and hang out.
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Good idea!
In the middle of nowhere, no phones, no contact with the outside world for a month. Expensive as fuck. Then an intense program of LGBTQ history, therapy, sexual health, financial independence, masking around abusers and how to best protect yourself. With a big fake ceremony at the end when the parents come back, they get the child they wanted at the price they were willing to pay, and the child gets away safely in a couple of years. Everyone's a winner!
Interestingly I won't be surprised when this specific ruling is used to protect trans rights. A double edge sword if you will.
Interestingly I won’t be surprised when this specific ruling is used to protect trans rights
What?
How is medical professionals being able to tell patients false and misleading information going to be used to support trans rights?
They also can't be forced to lie or provide false and misleading information as well. The ruling even mentions the American Psychiatric Association calling homosexuality a mental disorder as a case where the AMA was wrong. It could end up being very interesting in how lower courts interpret this in the future in cases blocking trans care bans.
It's just about words...
Not actually treatements
But that's not even getting into how crazy expecting logical consistency or fair enforcement is...
Just remember...your right to trash religion in all of its forms cannot be constitutionally abridged. Call them all baby-raping goat-fuckers to there faces. Protest there churches. Better yet, crash their therapy sessions with a great big old transgender make-out party on the sidewalk in front of their church. Keep it legal...make them show their true faces.
The U.S. Government never passes up an opportunity to declare people to be property.
Children are not property. Children are people.
The exact same logic that adults can speak toward children in ways that are abusive because those adults are legally allowed to speak is exactly the logic that would say that adults can sexually abuse children because those adults are legally allowed to have sex.
No. When your actions have victims, you are violating those victims’ rights.
And that is true REGARDLESS of what this court of "justices" claims.
The people on this court don’t even know what the word "justice" means, and they have no business being called it.
Trans genocide is on its way and there seems to be virtually no way to stop it
"Free Speech" is not a thing. It's a cute little idea. But even in the most ideal "Liberal" (capital L) utopia speech will always have restrictions.
It's like saying "Freedom of Movement" covers your ability to swing your arm around regardless of who's "face" happens to be in the way.
The lie of "Freedom of Speech" is a privilege of a stable system of governance that is not threatened. Speech is allowed to spread freely and even question those systems as long as those systems are not threatened (Neoliberal capitalism in recent history). But in times of conflict and worsening conditions it will always be used to protect the systems that have power as they become more oppressive.
It is why we use to look down at places like Cuba and scream "they suppress the newspapers!
Yes, they do. Because their system that refuses to allow outside capital to influence their country IS under threat. It's had a blockade of trade for decades. It's an actual threat. And so, in the same way, "Free Speech" is suppressed.
Because the idea of free speech is just that, an idea. It's not something that exists in reality.
Protect Iran's what? Oh, it's the other thing.