When I was 6 years old I realised I was supposed to be born a girl. This belief lasted until I was about 10 or 11. Lots of gay boys experience this. Of course, it turned out just to be my misunderstanding my future homosexuality.
If this bill were law today, and as a 6 year old I expressed to my parents (or anyone) the “realisation” that I was a girl in the wrong body, and if in response they CORRECTLY suggested “that’s just you misunderstanding your future homosexuality” and didn’t affirm my simplistic childish belief, their actions would be illegal. The test being my distress at the conversation (a conversation I most likely wouldn’t understand at 6).
This bill is a homophobic hellscape. It’s just awful.
How can its proponents not see the problem? exact parents they want
Conversion practices cause harm (whether physical or psychological), have no clinical basis, and fall short of the professional standards expected of healthcare
providers.
This isn’t about ideology. It’s about right and wrong; and medical judgement between individual and doctor.