If this is the level of literacy and foresight provided by posters itt then I we need to rethink all the supposed "gotcha" moments both for and against the affidavits because this is ridiculous. Let's just glance over the immediate stuff from pic related as drawn from the bill's proposition:
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The bill itself:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5/text
Point 2 of the image is immediate for anyone who doesn't have a double digit IQ. The entire bill routinely attacks any form of segregation as discrimination which, if amended under civil rights law, would become criminalized. This includes everything from bathrooms to sports teams to work places to foster care and...
Translation:
Transgender freaks in women's shelters have to be allowed to shower with women who are recovering from sexual abuse. It is a criminal act to refuse, if the bill is passed.
Oh, but what about the therapy stuff the pic mentions? Again, the entire bill classifies anything contrary to LGBTQ and anything that would inhibit behavior--even public breastfeeding--as "discrimination" (ie you'd be breaking the law if you tell a woman to not breastfeed publicly in your establishment). This contrary = victimization perspective is especially clear in point 7, which is where the Medical arguments of the above pic come from:
Translation: You cannot conduct therapy which seeks to "undermine" (ie contradict) a person's sexual orientation or
perceived sexual identity. Yes, I said "perceived", seeing as one of the few things this bill takes excruciating detail to clarify is...
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Meaning even if a person is inaccurate and perceives themselves to be a sex, race, etc. they are not, you cannot "discriminate" against them for their factually incorrect perception.
Back on point: What does this mean? Use the big boy brain: The term "conversion therapy" is not specified or defined like other terms in this bill (see above) and thus is open to interpretation. Therapy seeking to encourage a patient (person or child) to accept their natural sex/gender could be legally considered conversion therapy and, according to this bill, would be a violation of civil rights.
This is what the above pic referenced as "paving the way" to ban any counseling contrary to trooning. Unless you're new to this, or English isn't your first language, or you're just stupid, vague language is always purposeful in legislature like this in order to make it malleable in any given context, according to what the legislators want it to mean (see also
that provision about women's "life or health" regarding late term abortion)
Also, the "discredited" practice isn't given examples in this bill, meaning it can range from "electroshock the gay away" to "Susan simply needs to accept that she is going through natural changes and doesn't need to think she's a he, let alone start HRT".
>inb4 Where does it say "they have to screw with kids' hormones"?!
Right where it's vague ass was railing against "discrimination" of all forms, including in therapy.
If a doctor refuses to grant a parent the HRT they want to impose on their child? Discrimination.
If a therapist encourages a child to accept their natural sex (ie reality) rather than indulging their supposed gender dysphoria the other direction? Discrimination.
Say, speaking of really outlandish attacks on non-LGBTQ discrimination:
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Now again, remember that this involves the
perception, even if inaccurate, of one's sex, sexual orientation, race, etc.
No idea the long term ramifications of this one, or how traffickers won't be as big a problem if we just stop "discriminating" and finally make all those evil non-LGBTQ foster care and adoption folk stop being so evil.
Really paints the image that anything and everyone is out to get LGBTQ, doesn't it? Almost like it's trying to further assert to the last letter the idea that the worst persecution suffered--by LGBTQ--is discrimination by everyone non-LGBTQ.
That's the name of the game: Discrimination. Make that term as broad and wide as possible so that any instance of contradiction in any aspect of life (financial, medical, schooling, etc.) is tantamount to Jim Crow and must be abolished!
There's also silliness like
Basically just transgender gibs. (17) takes it further, but that's besides my main focus regarding victims and children.
