Thread by @justdad7

The @MinJusticeEn has now published a Charter Statement on #billc6 to ban "conversion therapy." The level of analysis is embarrassingly low. Most of the paper simply summarizes various sections of the Charter that might be applicable. /2
justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl…

There no attempt to analyze or provide a reasoned response to any of the objections to the bill that have been raised by various groups such as the @JCCFCanada
jccf.ca/published_repo… /3

The paper argues that because the bill applies only to a "practices, services or treatments" it therefore excludes "purely private discussions" with school counsellors, parents and faith leaders. The problem is that there is no clarity as to where a "private discussion" /4

leaves off and a "practice, service or treatment" begins. This language offers little comfort to professional therapists. It will even affect their practice with adults as the bill extends to receiving benefits from and advertising conversion therapy. /5

The review talks about suicide risk as one of the justifications for the ban. The problem is the government has to produce evidence to justify restrictions on protected rights and the only evidence that conversion therapy for gender identity increases the risk of suicide is /6

a low quality research study which has been demonstrated to have multiple, major flaws.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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