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Strategically we all have a most important task to focus on over the next three weeks.

We simply MUST win the argument that including Gender Identity as being in the same CATEGORY (for policy decisions etc.) as Sexual Orientation is a CATEGORY MISTAKE.

Why is this so important?
If gender identity is included in any law to outlaw so-called conversion therapies, then young people will be denied access to therapies aimed at resolving or managing gender dysphoria. This will cement gender identities which might otherwise be fluid.
It is this Category Mistake which is recognised in the formation and rapid growth of @ALLIANCELGB

However, there is much work yet to be done.

Watch the BBC Newsnight programme again.
There is an underlying implication that the work to medicalise young people with gender identity problems is homophobic conversion therapy.

And it is.

Organisations campaigning for transgenderism to be treated in the same category as homosexuality have largely succeeded.
However, possessing a non-conforming gender identity is not at all in the same category as being homosexual.

Homosexuals do not need medical intervention to validate their sexuality.

There are plenty more points. If you recognise the category mistake, please add your voice.
Of course, this is important to me personally. Young people are being denied effective treatment for gender dysphoria because of this category error.

The 'T' hijacks any movement it can in its quest for 'validation'.

It really is time to #DropTheT
I've just read this publication from The United Nations

It makes the category mistake of including gender identity with sexual orientation.

What could have been a force for good is converted into a danger to young people by that one simple mistake.
This document will be used to inform governments around the world on what needs to be done to stop conversion therapy.

Your government.

Politicians will not see its major flaw unless you point it out to them.

Gender identity does not belong with sexual orientation.
So, for every father on this #FathersDay

Please help governments make policy preventing #ConversionTherapy for sexual orientation.

But without 'gender identity' in any new laws.

#CategoryMistake

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