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MercatorNet 5 February 2019 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has released a media statement relating to so-called “gay conversion therapy”, promising to outlaw therapies offered to people with unwanted same-sex attraction. This sets off my antennae as I am a male who throughout his entire childhood and early adulthood believed himself to have been “born gay”. As a […]

Daily Mail 1 December 2020 Campaigners have celebrated a victory for ‘common sense’ as the High Court today ruled children under 16 are unlikely to be able to give ‘informed consent’ to take puberty blockers. The ruling came after Keira Bell brought legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK’s only gender

LifeSite 25 November 2020 With all the focus on the aftermath of the presidential elections, you might have missed an important victory in the courts last week. As reported November 20 by Liberty Counsel, which litigated the case successfully, in Florida “A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down laws that ban counselors from providing

Public Discourse 21 October 2020 n increasing number of children, both here in America and around the globe, are experiencing deep discomfort, confusion, and alienation from their sexed body, a condition known as gender dysphoria. Unsurprisingly, people disagree about how best to respond to this condition in order to help these kids. How we navigate

Public Discourse 5 April 2016 The freedom of people with same-sex attractions to exercise their civil rights is under siege by legal bullies who hate redeemed and restored lives. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and two other groups are out to crush the civil rights of those who desperately desire therapy. On February 24,

Law and Religion Australia blog 26 November 2020 A bill dealing with the topic of what elsewhere has been called “conversion therapy” has been introduced into the Victorian Legislative Assembly: the  Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020. Along with the Bill, there is an important Explanatory Memorandum which gives insight into what the Victorian Government thinks

Canberra Times 26 August 2020 The Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Bill, introduced into the ACT Assembly a couple of weeks ago, has become embroiled in controversy. It arises out of lobbying by members of the LGBT community to ban “conversion therapy”, in the context of past practices seeking to change people’s sexual orientation.

MercatorNet 12 February 2016 The Victorian government plans to outlaw the provision of counselling to people who want to overcome unwanted homosexual attraction. That is tyrannical. Premier Daniel Andrews is mimicking laws passed in three US states, even though 20 US states have rejected such legislation as an infringement of client self-determination. Advocates scare-monger about “shock therapy”

New York Post 22 July 2013 Oral arguments started Friday in New Jersey Superior Court in Ferguson, et. al. v. JONAH, et. al. — a landmark case in which the Southern Poverty Law Center is trying to shut down JONAH, a Jewish group that helps people with unwanted same-sex attraction live their lives in accord

The Federalist 16 April 2015 Psychologically healthy people do not commit suicide. Changing genders is an outward expression of some form of depression that started long before the suicide. Studies have shown conclusively that suicide is the result of mental illness and untreated depression, but the elite who push for gender change ignore the evidence.