Should the government support gay conversion therapy?

Yes, the Soviet Union made religious education and attendance at religious services illegal for children. At the same time the schools pushed anti-religious and atheist propaganda.

How well did that work out?

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Some want to facilitate that by taking kids from parents and leftists raising them in little fruitcake factories.

Do you include children when you say “in general?”

Are you admitting it?

Maher has a good panel there they are talking some pretty basic norms before the trans train came barreling in wrecking the station. It’s definitely something you don’t want to get wrong.

No.
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The ass kicking dems get in the mids won’t be imaginary.

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In both Iran and the US, government officials are encouraging gay boys and men to get treatments to make them into straight women.

Likewise governments in both countries are encouraging lesbians to become straight men.

In these cases, gender reassignment is a chemical and/or surgical form of gay-conversion therapy.

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Guys at work ribbing you over that gay son? Make him a daughter instead, problem solved.

Yes. The irony is for years we have been hearing that every man does not need to have stereotypically male characteristics. Gay or effeminate men are still men.

Now government authorities are pushing the opposite. The new line is that gay or effeminate boys/men are most likely really girls/women. Medical intervention is required to make biological characteristics agree with the state-approved gender.

The government policies in Iran and the US have converged.

The gender reassignment treatments appear meet the legal definition a “sexual orientation change efforts”, which are illegal for minors under current California law:

“Sexual orientation change efforts” means any practices by mental health providers that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation. This includes efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1151-1200/sb_1172_bill_20120705_amended_asm_v93.pdf

US government officials are not encouraging gay boys and men to get treatments to make them into straight women nor is there and proof that they are.

That’s still how it is.

That’s incorrect. That is no one’s line. There is no such thing as a state-approved gender .

Gender affirmation for trans individuals does not change which gender(s) they are attracted to.

FWIW, you are pointing at a senate bill… here’s the actual law you are trying to quote:

What is your reasoning for saying, “no”?

We aren’t forcing homosexuals to change genders.

The encouraging of young children to change genders could lead to homosexuals in the wrong, mutilated body. Isn’t that true?

The government is not encouraging young children who aren’t suffering from gender dysphoria to change genders. They aren’t even encouraging it for young children who are… they’re just making sure the services are available. Kinda like how people who are pro-choice aren’t encouraging women to get abortions. It’s about making sure these services are accessible for people who need them, not encouraging people who don’t need them to use them.

Should the government support gay conversion therapy?

Interesting question.

Under the crit/progs “promote the general welfare” dogma, I can see a case.

That is not true.

The US government, not Iran.

Yes, I know.

I see. Then you’re wrong.