This mother is fleeing Ontario where those in authority would have continued imposing #ConversionTherapy on her child without her consent and without the child's consent. They just don't call it Conversion Therapy.
https://twitter.com/swahkee/status/1447216634138071041
If it's #ConversionTherapy, but they're not calling it that, what ARE they calling it? Well, probably "ABA", but...
https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1465076124371894274?t=t9RsBdV10t2zZ7e6VFFxlA&s=19
...#ConversionTherapy hides within many programmes which have provincial funding in Canada in spite of the #conversiontherapylaw: EIBI, IBI... They strip victims of the right to consent.
What if parents want to obviate the ban on 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧ #ConversionTherapy in Canada? It's perfectly possible to use existing EI services. You need to catch the 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧ signs as early as possible and find an ABA practitioner willing to slip it into the child's IEP off-record.
Don't think this won't happen and be widespread. Remember, the #ConversionTherapy guys are used to operating in a clandestine way anyhow, and they are used to networking with people who share their beliefs. And these are STRONG beliefs.
Don't be surprised if a whole bunch of sex-'n-gender fundamentalists suddenly start signing up for ABA training and opening "Christian" Early Intervention centres... that also happen to accommodate older children with "behavioural challenges".
Where there's a will, there's a way, and the Canadian government have left a loophole for #ConversionTherapy that's as wide as that proverbial road to hell that's paved with good intentions.
And the people who already operate in the space left by the loophole function as a cult in every way: from proselytising through to guilt tactics used on the people they ensnare, cult jargon, a body of texts, believing they're the only way to salvation...
https://twitter.com/swahkee/status/1447201013505613825
Expect more "Christian" investors in the "behavioural health industry".
https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1378320758888357889?t=v6nqAoyVKf7qY0oHhaA3ww&s=19
Not everyone employed in the "behavioural health" industry even knows that what they are doing is in fact #ConversionTherapy. Registered Behaviour Technicians get very cursory training and are often surprised when you show them the abominable research which underlies their work.
Some pro-ABA people are aware of the connections and are keen to distance themselves from use of these methods against LGBTQI+ people ONLY, whilst defending the nonconsensual use of #ConversionTherapy techniques against other vulnerable people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ja…
No wonder people like @jornbettin are calling these selective bans on #ConversionTherapy discriminatory.
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