The Progressive State of California is pushing a bill through its legislature critics say could effectively silence any speech that challenges the assumptions of a child who has chosen to change their gender. The bill would not criminalize speech causing a cis-gendered child to question their gender, however.
SB 934 asserts it is “psychological torture” to question a transgendered child, therefore, any therapist that questions a transgendered child should be liable to civil prosecution. The bill would make conversion therapy a damage itself, freeing the plaintiff from having to prove damages from the therapy. The bill would also make the statute of limitations dependent on the start of the plaintiff’s “awareness” of the violation, and not the timeframe of the violation itself.
California To Make It More Dangerous To Say No To ‘Trans Kids’– thefederalist.com
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California is about to harm people again, and the dangerous moral narcissist and sexualizer of childhood Scott Wiener is as always leading the way. The state legislature is about to make it more dangerous to tell a self-identified trans kid that he or she wasn’t born in the wrong body.
To understand what’s at stake, start with Jamie Reed. A former medical caseworker and a self-identified “queer woman” with a trans-identifying spouse, Reed believes that transgender identity is real, defensible, and worthy of protection. But she quit her job at a pediatric transgender clinic because the things she saw there were clearly indefensible, even for an advocate of trans identity.
In a much-discussed essay at the Free Press, Reed wrote that her clinic began to see clear signs of social contagion: “Sometimes clusters of girls arrived from the same high school.”
Reed wrote, at length, about the degree to which minors who identified as transgender showed up with mental health problems that ran underneath their declarations about sexual identity: “The girls who came to us had many comorbidities: depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating disorders, obesity. Many were diagnosed with autism, or had autism-like symptoms.”
Despite all those reasons to tread carefully, Reed wrote, the clinic rushed every child declaring a transgender identity straight into the medical pipeline, no questions asked. “To begin transitioning, the girls needed a letter of support from a therapist — usually one we recommended — who they had to see only once or twice for the green light,” she wrote. “The next stop was a single visit to the endocrinologist for a testosterone prescription.”
