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The Centre for Gender and Sexual Health and Equity is calling for changes to #BillC8 to make the provisions on gender identity even more extensive and restrictive than they already are. The open letter claims that Bill C-8 /2
The Centre for Gender and Sexual Health and Equity is calling for changes to #BillC8 to make the provisions on gender identity even more extensive and restrictive than they already are. The open letter claims that Bill C-8 /2
and the existing Ontario legislation on conversion therapy exempt various practices at the former CAMH gender clinic which the authors consider to be conversion therapy. It proposes to add language referring to a patient's social or medical transition "as determined by the /3
patient themselves." This suggests that any exercise of clinical judgment to recommend against transition could be considered conversion therapy. The proposed amendments will probably not pass and would not make much difference as the simple existence of the law will be enough /4
to deter all but the bravest clinicians from questioning the affirmative model. What the letter makes clear is that the main focus of Bill C-8 is not the largely abandoned practice of religiously motivated "therapy" for sexual orientation but the desire to take away any the /5
few remaining safeguards against unnecessary and harmful medical transition of vulnerable and confused young people.
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