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What is the deal with the Banning Conversion Therapy in Ireland campaign?

Sheeps · 2021-04-14 11:35:12

There have been many posts lately on social media about a campaign to ban conversion therapy and there are naturally plenty of people expressing their outrage that it is legal in Ireland. It would seem to be the latest big social issue facing this country and it has universal political support across the Dáil. The…

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#52 16-04-2021 6:09pm

Eric Cartman

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Im happy with this if it can be used to outright ban parents transitioning their kids from their birth gender.

Gay conversion therapy, puberty blockers, hrt, all of this stuff is absolutely child abuse.

I hope everyone can get with every element of this to wipe put sexuality/gender alteration in children across the board, be it prompted by religion or a devotion to post modern leftism

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#53 17-04-2021 9:47am

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Conversion therapy in the traditional sense is not a big deal in Ireland.

Activists have been claiming that not affirming someone's identity is conversion therapy, so this is an attempt to make anything other than the 'affirmation model' illegal.

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#54 17-04-2021 7:00pm

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Eric Cartman wrote: »

Im happy with this if it can be used to outright ban parents transitioning their kids from their birth gender.

Gay conversion therapy, puberty blockers, hrt, all of this stuff is absolutely child abuse.

I hope everyone can get with every element of this to wipe put sexuality/gender alteration in children across the board, be it prompted by religion or a devotion to post modern leftism

This is from the 'JK Rowling cancelled thread', about banning conversion therapy in Canada
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=113891066#post113891066

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

...this is the tweet Rowling liked

That seems to be saying that if a therapist helps a child feel comfortable in their body, that will be against the law. I’m taking from that that the only acceptable therapy will to agree with the child that they are in the wrong body. What about detransitioners? Wouldn’t they have been exactly the children who a therapist may have helped feel comfortable in their body? And what is homophobic about that? Please help me here.

I don't know if the Irish bill could be interpreted in the same way, or if it would be

And the next two posts in that thread, for the craic

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote:

Quantum Erasure wrote:

for a minute there i was very confused as to what 'conversion therapy' was referring to....

Helping a child feel comfortable in their bodies = conversion therapy apparently. I’m living in a cuckoo clock.

I’m... actually okay with this being highlighted. Let more people see the utter absurdity of it all.

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