Posted on 01/15/2019 2:34:44 PM PST by Ennis85
The New York state legislature passed a series of bills Tuesday banning licensed therapists from engaging in conversion therapy and shielding transgender people from discrimination.
The Gender Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which outlaws discrimination based on gender identity or expression, was first introduced more than a decade ago and has passed the Democrat-held Assembly every year since 2008, but finally received a vote in the Senate after the Democrats reclaimed a majority of the upper chamber in November.
“After a protracted 16-year battle, the Democratic majority will finally be able to shield transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers from discrimination and hate,” the bill’s sponsor, state senator Brad Hoylman (D., Manhattan), said in a statement.
The conversion-therapy ban, which was also passed Tuesday, prohibits licensed therapists from attempting to change the sexual orientation of minors in their care. Fourteen other states have passed similar legislation in response to a widespread public backlash against attempts to pathologize homosexuality in minors.
“So-called conversion therapy is child abuse, plain and simple,” said Hoylman, who also sponsored the conversion ban.
Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to sign both bills.
“New York is the proud birthplace of the gay-rights movement at Stonewall,” Cuomo said in a speech in December. “We will pass a law that stops any discrimination against our LGBTQ community by passing GENDA this year.”
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They covert boys into girls. They are insane and of evil intent.
So doctors can mutilate kids with gender confusion, but not save children who want to be cured of sodomite predilections?
Bizarro world.
The people of NY State are held hostage to NY City, just like the people of Illinois are held hostage by Chicago.................
This isn’t about law or science, it is about forced acceptance of libtard dogma.
The “Stay Gay Law”.
What about “pro-choice?”
What about “privacy?”
Should be called the Homosexual Recruitment Act.
Next, they’ll ban Alcoholics Anonymous.
So becoming gay is a one-way street. There is no becoming Hetero. Not allowed. Got it.
No honest, self respecting therapist would entertain a patient’s fantasies, rather than help them overcome their delusions. Doctors of every discipline need to stand up to governmental tyranny. They need to form new professional associations, and leave the leftist AMA and both APA’s. I know it puts their careers at stake, but somebody has to do SOMETHING to stop this nonsense!
Gender confusion is rampant and I feel sorry for all involved.
Conversion therapy is child.abuse, but puberty blockers and hormone shots are not child.abuse?????
Well...you know...
Sandusky smiles.
Yep, that’s outdated and bigoted according to our overlords.
We are too focused on crothches, according to our overlords. This whole.gender identity thing is based on how you feel, not based on any physical characteristics. Our overlords have spoken. Dissent is verboten.
Once you are locked into the transition, there is no escape. It is sort of like a life’s sentence to hell on earth.
Let the “blood letting” begin.
Democrats have control of both NY Assembly and Senate, which has only happened briefly 3 times since WWII. Now they have big majorities in both.
They will make NY an expensive, progressive hell.
A woman who wants to hire someone to kill her unborn baby is protected by “Doctor-patient privacy”, but someone who who wants to lessen their interest in those of the same sex is not so protected?
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