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1/ Our longform response to the draft conversion practice bill is now available on our website at gaymensnetwork.co.uk/. This bill is broad, unnecessary and offers poorer protection to gay people than existing laws. It is a bill about gender ideology, not gay rights.
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LGB Alliance
@AllianceLGBOct 20
An excellent letter from the Gay Men’s Network that highlights the dangers Conversion Practices legislation represents to gay men, to lesbians and to the parents of gay teens. xitter.cf/mensnetwork1/status/21…
Gay Men’s Network@MensNetwork1Oct 20
1/ We’ve written to the Secretary of State for Equalities concerning misinformation that appeared in an article she wrote over the weekend. It’s important that the debate around the draft conversion bill is accurate and the Minister should promote this. gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
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Gay Men’s Network@MensNetwork1Oct 20
1/ We’ve written to the Secretary of State for Equalities concerning misinformation that appeared in an article she wrote over the weekend. It’s important that the debate around the draft conversion bill is accurate and the Minister should promote this. gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
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1/ We’ve written to the Secretary of State for Equalities concerning misinformation that appeared in an article she wrote over the weekend. It’s important that the debate around the draft conversion bill is accurate and the Minister should promote this. gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
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9/ We have highlighted fundamental issues with the draft conversion bill. It makes it a crime to say to a distressed teenager, “I think you are a lesbian, not a trans man” if a jury find that to be abusive after the fact. Our longform analysis of the bill is available on our site
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10/ We ask the Secretary of State to withdraw and correct the misinformation in her article, people should not get a misleading impression about the scope of the bill or accept clear falsehoods about the Domestic Abuse Act providing years of evidence of a “high prosecution bar”.
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Stella O'Malley
@stellaomalley3Sep 24
Brilliant thread exposing the clown show happening in Stormont this week and next
Gay Men’s Network@MensNetwork1Sep 24
1/ The GMN analysis of the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill (NI) is now available on our website. This Private Member's Bill is legally incoherent and it offers worse protections for gay men and lesbians than existing NI law. gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
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6/ The clause 1 offence of performing conversion therapy is so badly drafted it extends beyond the medical sphere and captures any person offering "instruction". That term is not defined and could include parents, employers, speakers etc.
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9/ The Bill does not comply with human rights. It compels belief, it says parents may only affirm, it allows only affirmative thought and speech, it discriminates against watchful wating and gender critical points of view and it is incoherent legally contrary to Article 7
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10/ Conversion legislation is not gay marriage 2.0, it is a proposed criminal statute with far reaching consequences. The Gay rights movement is not well served by shoddy, draconian legislation that suspends the sword of Damocles across every kitchen table in Northern Ireland.
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4/ The drafting of this bill is extremely poor. Parents, teachers, employers or public speakers can be prosecuted for "suppressing" and identity, but the bill defines neither the terms. That is an extraordinary level of ambiguity in criminal legislation.
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5/ The offences in this bill trigger on the single lowest harm threshold known to criminal law, "fear, alarm or distress". Any parent having a difficult time with a teenager having normal tough family conversations could do so in the shadow of criminal law and prosecution.
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1/ The GMN analysis of the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill (NI) is now available on our website. This Private Member's Bill is legally incoherent and it offers worse protections for gay men and lesbians than existing NI law. gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
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3/ The true purpose of this bill is to smuggle in incoherent wide definitions related to gender ideology which have nothing to do with protecting gay people. Quite the opposite, because this bill criminalises parents who do anything other than affirm.
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