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24 Nov, 13 tweets, 6 min read
The Justice Committee will be starting its review of #Billc6 An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Conversion Therapy) on Nov 26. You can find details of the bill here. /2
parl.ca/LegisInfo/Bill…
The committee is meeting in hybrid form, with witnesses attending by video conference. Meetings will be webcast unless the members decide to meet in camera. You can follow the committee's work at this web page /3
ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/…
The first order of business will be to decide who to call as a witness. The Committee normally starts by hearing from the Minister of Justice and then calls witnesses, with 1 hour allowed for each group of 4. Witnesses are given 5 minutes to make an opening statement. /4
There have been many great briefs submitted. This one from @cawsbar highlights the failure to study the experiences of females when preparing the bill. /5
@DetransCanada has submitted a brief which argues that the legislation will interfere with the ability of detransitioners to get proper care. /6
detranscanada.com/brief-on-bill-…
@RukhsanaSukhan has submitted a brief which discusses the interplay between gender dysphoria, autism and childhood trauma. /7
sabrandshukr.org/blog/parliamen…
Concerned Citizens of BC has submitted this brief on the Bill.
concerned.ca/bill-c-6-a-bri…
They have also prepared a more detailed reponse. /8
concerned.ca/federal-bill-c…
@JCCFCanada has prepared a submission on how the bill violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. /9
jccf.ca/wp-content/upl…
@GenderReportCA has prepared a submission (to which I contributed) on the impact of the bill on medical treatment of gender dysphoria. /10
genderreport.ca/canada-bill-c6…
I don't know if @JamesCantorPhD has submitted a formal brief but the Committee members should read his blog post on the bill. /11
sexologytoday.org/2020/10/bill-c…
@RethinkIME is a U.S. based group but almost everything in this discussion paper on Conversion Therapy Bans Applied to Minors with Gender Dysphoria is relevant in Canada. /12
rethinkime.org/index.php/conv…
I understand that some other individuals and organizations have also submitted briefs but I haven't seen them online. I have archived my previous threads on this bill here.
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@wethefemalescan has submitted a brief which you can read here. I will add other briefs to this thread as I learn of them.
wethefemales.com/wp-content/upl…

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27 Nov
Time to start thinking about amendments to #Billc6. Amendments after 2nd reading have to respect the scope and principles of the bill there is little chance of getting gender identity removed completely, but there are things that can be done. I have prepared some ideas. /2
This would provide a blanket exemption for regulated health care professionals (who would still be subject to provincial rules) while leaving in place protection against abuse by unlicensed persons. /3 Replace the last sentence ...
This fixes what should have been an obvious problem. As drafted the bill would apply to therapy for minor attracted persons or efforts to prevent a 16 year old from engaging in unprotected sex (but only with a person of the same sex). /4 Add the following exemption...
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20 Nov
On Nov 20, 1989 the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Unlike the Yogyakarta Principles this is a binding convention.) Consider how gender ideology and its offshoots flout this Convention. /2 ohchr.org/en/professiona…
One principle running throughout the Convention is that children have a right to be raised by their parents and families. The state is to intervene only in cases of abuse or neglect or parental separation, and then only by due process of law. [Article 9] /3
Today "abuse and neglect" has been redefined to mean refusing to agree to dangerous experimental treatments, which will probably leave a child sterile, for a mental health condition which usually resolves without treatment. /4
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14 Nov
🇨🇦 There are many parallels between Bill C-7 on MAID and #BillC6 on conversion therapy, which are both at the committee stage . /2
OPINION | Why new medical assistance in dying law should be sent back to the drawing board | CBC News cbc.ca/news/opinion/o…
Both deal with complex and emotionally charged issues. In both cases, the government consultation seems to have been only with activists on one side of the debate. In both cases the most visible opponents have been religious conservatives but opposition is in fact much broader /3
and includes both religious and secular concerns. One critical difference is that while the media is providing balanced reporting on Bill C-7 there is no such balance on Bill C-6. No Canadian media is covering the issues raised by Detrans Canada. /4
detranscanada.com/brief-on-bill-…
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10 Nov
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
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27 Oct
🇨🇦 #billc6 debate part 1. The transcript of yesterday's debate on conversion therapy legislation is now available online. I will review it and add comments to this thread throughout the day. The debate will resume this morning.
ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer…
🇨🇦 #billc6 debate part 2. First up, an eloquent speech by @GarnettGenuis at around page 1910. He explains how the definition of conversion therapy is a major overreach and needs to be fixed. Unfortunately, he does not discuss therapy for gender dysphoria in detail.
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#billc6 debate part 3. Comments by Conservative justice critic @RobMoore_CPC are also encouraging. He speaks about the need for the justice committee to hear from all stakeholders, including therapists dealing with gender dysphoria, to revise the definition in the bill.
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25 Oct
While the debate on #billc6 to ban conversion therapy is being presented as a fight for the LGBTQ community, many LGBT people, and lesbians in particular, have serious concerns about the legislation. @artymortyarty explains in this video. /2
This site, created by a group of LGBT people, explores the issue in more detail. The basic concern is that conversion therapy laws will lead many children who would otherwise grow up to be lesbian or gay to misdiagnosed as transgender. /3
genderhq.org/conversion-the…
This is an acute concern for the lesbian community. Young lesbians often do not fully realize their identity until they are in their 20s. By that time they may have had at least a double mastectomy. /4
4thwavenow.com/2016/01/25/the…
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