We Are Evil!

The far right sees us as trying to stifle free speech or their right to raise their child because we will not let them torture their children.

Transgender tide
A professor at the University of Louisville says he lost his job for advising parents to help their children embrace their birth sex
World View
By Jamie Dean
April 08, 2019

A little over two years ago, I wrote an article about the growing push to affirm transgenderism in children and teenagers. National Geographic had just published an issue praising the movement, and featured a cover photo of a 9-year-old boy dressed like a girl.

Ken Zucker, a secular psychologist in Canada, had recently lost his longtime position at a mental health center in Toronto for suggesting parents should try to help confused children become secure with their birth sex.

During that time, I spoke with Allan Josephson, a professor and psychiatrist at the University of Louisville, who offers similar counsel. He told me Zucker’s firing had been “an incredibly sobering experience for many professionals to see.” Many realized: “If that could happen to him, perhaps it could happen to me.”

Two years later, Josephson says it’s no longer a hypothetical scenario.

On March 28, attorneys for the legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Louisville on behalf of Josephson. They say the school effectively fired the professor over his once-mainstream views.

There have been many studies that have shown the conversion therapy has increased suicidal idealizations, self-harm, and depression in children who have been forced into conversion therapy.

All the major professional associations ban their members from preforming conversion therapy but that doesn’t deter the ADF lawsuit,

The ADF lawsuit challenges the University of Louisville’s actions as violations of Josephson’s free speech. The group’s website says school officials acted against the professor “with an eye to ensuring that neither he nor anyone else dares to express viewpoints they find objectionable on medical and psychiatric issues.”

So in other words they think that “free speech” override treatments that cause harm.

And of course they bring up the junk science that was done on “Rapid Onset of Gender Disorder” how we silenced her study even though her study was seriously flawed.

I foresee many more of these lawsuits against states that have banned conversion and atone of them will go all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Today I am at am on a panel for second year students at a local medical school.