"Rob Hoogland, was sentenced to serve 6 months in jail for the crime of attempting to protect his child from medical assault, for speaking up, for refusing to abide by a legally enforced belief system — gender ideology. /1
Young people do not reach full cognitive brain development till around the age of 25, yet the B.C. Infants Act says a minor can consent to medical treatments. /2
...most youth who are diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” would otherwise grow up to be LGB, if they are allowed to grow up — Statistically speaking, 75% would grow up to be LGB, and 85% would grow up to be LGB or straight. /3
In recent years, a number of clinicians have come forward to say they left their jobs because their gender clinic was knowingly performing gay conversion therapy. /4
Parents ... now run the risk of being forced to watch (or worse still, be jailed) as their children are ripped away, drugged, sterilized, and assaulted by the medical field — a field that’s forever been obsessed with pathologizing and medicalizing those who don’t conform." /5
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When will media outlets like @NPR stop being lazy & start doing their job?!
The #EqualityAct is a HUGE departure from the gains achieved in the SCOTUS Bostock ruling & there are meaningful objections to the Act that aren't religious!
"This act would explicitly enshrine those nondiscrimination protections into law for sexual orientation and gender identity, rather [...] 'sex.' However, the Equality Act would also substantially expand those protections." /2
This glosses over an important point:
The #EqualityAct does NOT follow the Bostock ruling which enshrined protections on the basis of sex. Instead of sex, the Act is based on gender identity.
This causes a cascade of damages that affect LGB people as well as women and girls /3
Since @RepCicilline/@DavidCicilline introduced it, people ask us "Why is a group dedicated to LGB rights concerned about the Equality Act? What's not to like about a law that protects people from being discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation?"
A thread! /1
There are some wonderful (and overdue!) things in the Equality Act that we welcome. Of course!
But while we applaud the parts of the Act that advance LGB rights, we feel that despite being well-meaning, the bill acts as a kind of Trojan Horse for homophobia and misogyny. /2
As a community, the gay movement has waited so long for some of the important changes in the Equality Act, many aren't thinking critically about the trouble contained in it. To be clear, the problem WITHIN the Equality Act is NOT trans people, it is something ideological. /3
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) & Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) look at the week of Feb. 22 to introduce the Equality Act with a vote expected as early as March./1
The Op-Ed “In Statehouses Everywhere, Republicans Have One Agenda” by Jennifer Finney Boylan (NYT, Jan 31, 2021) misses several marks by several miles./1
We want to point out three particularly egregious errors:/2
First, the author attacks measures to protect safety & fairness in women’s sport as “targeting young queer people,” and suggests they aren’t based on science. They are. E.g. World Rugby cites dozens of scientific articles to underpin its ruling to keep women’s rugby safe./3
The public is largely unaware that the promotion of false beliefs is having a devastating impact on many LGB people, especially women and girls. We will address this disinformation by making the following points clear:/1