Posted on 01/13/2024 10:46:43 PM PST by Red Badger
A radical new law proposed by Scotland’s left-wing government would criminalize parents who take steps to suppress their child’s desire to identify as their chosen gender.
Parents in Scotland could soon be sentenced to seven years in prison if they refuse to allow their children to change their gender under plans proposed by the Scottish government.
A public consultation was launched on Tuesday on legislation designed to end conversion practices for both sexual orientation and gender identity and includes widespread measures to criminalize parents who refuse to engage in their children’s desire to not just undergo gender transitions but to identify as another gender by, for example, dressing as the opposite gender.
The consultation proposed by Equalities Minister Emma Roddick would criminalize “coercive” behavior by parents that intends to “change or suppress” a child’s gender identity and consequently causes “harm” to the child.
“Coercive” behavior is broadly defined in the plans and ranges from “violent, threatening, or intimidating” behavior towards the victim to “controlling the victim’s day-to-day activities” or “pressuring the victim to act in a particular way.”
It states the behavior needs to be sustained but subsequently explains that such behavior need only happen “on at least two occasions” to meet this criteria.
Harm is also defined loosely as either “physical or psychological,” and the latter must be shown to have caused the child “fear, alarm, and distress.”
The draft legislation includes a defense if the parent can prove their actions were objectively reasonable.
For Women Scotland, a campaign seeking to protect women’s and children’s rights in the country, expressed their concerns about the draft legislation.
“We have grave concerns that these plans will criminalize loving parents, who could face years in jail simply for refusing to sign up to the gender ideology cult,” spokesperson Marion Calder said.
“They will also hand activists and social workers unprecedented powers to meddle in family life, while having a chilling impact on therapists and counselors.
“If the SNP and Greens insist on pushing this through, it is likely to go the same way as the toxic self-ID and named person laws and be blocked in the courts,” she added.
The left-wing Scottish National Party (SNP) has come under fire for pushing through several controversial progressive policies relating to transgender issues, the most recent being last year’s decision to remove the requirement for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria in order to apply for a gender recognition certificate to legally change one’s gender.
The reforms also slashed the time an applicant must live in their preferred gender before legally changing it from two years to three months and lowered the minimum age at which a person can apply for a gender recognition certificate from 18 to 16 years.
Scotland went VERY lefty quite a while ago. Many wanted to leave the UK and be their own nation; that’s how bad it is over there.
Pray for the Downfall of the West’s evil rulers, elites and leaders !
Insane.
But it's hard to understand what this has to do with being left-wing. Left-wing used to mean pro-working class. Higher wages for factory workers, shorter hours, and government benefits.
Strange, how economic socialism morphed into chopping off children's body parts.
Here are some Brits on strike in the 1930s. Imagine telling them you want to chop off their son's penises.
Sean Connery is rolling in his grave!
He’s immortal!.......................
Braveheart? ‘FREEDOM!!!!’ From William Wallace to Wimpy Wimp Wist.
When you allow a smidgeon of socialism, you are going to eventually get the two-fisted treatment.
True; however, today LEFTY means STALINIST COMMUNISM or worse.
Well no, actually, he lost his head.
Okay, I see what y’all are referring to. Great movie!
Yes, it was.
Who will watch after the “child” when the parents are locked up? The groomer?
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Scots are always going on about how bloody great it is in Scotland. That is until we ask them, “Well if things are so bloody great in Scotland what the hell ere you doing down here?
The Scots and the Irish had this thing going once until the Irish gave the Scots the bagpipes. The Irish gave them to the Scots as a joke. Trouble is that the Scots took it seriously.
as father is dragged out he states “but there are no Pirates!” Sir that does not matter, it only matters what your son wants to pretend to be…..
The Aztecs used to sacrifice children to the Gods—the leftists are just repeating history.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it.
Leftists are too insane, too mentally impaired to hold any public office at any level. They just aren’t right in the head and they will never be.
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