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Federal court allows Michigan therapists to counsel children claiming to be opposite sex

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Counselors and therapists in Michigan will be allowed to treat children who believe themselves to be the opposite sex, striking down a Michigan law that outlawed such counseling by claiming it constitutes “conversion therapy.”

The Dec. 17 ruling at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit blocked the Michigan law by stating that it “discriminates based on viewpoint” by forbidding therapists from counseling children that they are their own biological sex rather than the opposite sex.

The court noted that the law “expressly” allows therapists to help children commit to a so-called “transition” to the opposite sex. The rule is a “near-certain violation” of the First Amendment, the order said.

The Michigan law was passed on the grounds that steering children away from a transgender identity constitutes “conversion” similar to counseling that seeks to mitigate same-sex attraction. LGBT advocates claim that such “conversion therapy” has been discredited and constitutes a danger to therapy patients.

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This is a belief and not anything to do with fact. If this was just about rights then the same logic should apply that just like children can be counselled into transitioning into the opposite sex. They can also be detransitioned out of the opposite sex if they choose as a right. Thus so called conversion therapy is itself a subjective belief as to what constitutes conversion therapy.

Its unbelievable that only a decade or so ago this was regarded as a mental issue that required therapy and even todays inquiries show that transitioning therapy is being outlawed as it has no scientific basis. Yet now judges are legislating in support of this.

Its more or less legislating the right to promote potentially mental illness. Which is insane in itself. But hopefully we are seeing the end of this idea and unsupported ideology with recent changes in theraputic approaches by banning such ideas and going back to what we know works. Which is traditional therapy and dealing with reality and not encouraging unsupported ideas.
 
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