A legal Trojan horse
by James Kennedy, Artillery Row:
Stonewall recently released its latest attempt at heart-rending propaganda. A short advert for a “conversion therapy” ban shows a teenager we must presume has a “gender-non-conforming” identity of some sort (there are supposedly several thousand options, don’t forget) apparently being led through “conversion therapy”.
The parents are portrayed as devious-despite-loving types, who seek out a creepy counsellor with no clue about consent and a too-enthusiastic prayer group from the local church. Poor grandma comes out perhaps the worst, for saying “oh we’ve missed our boy, I’m so glad you’re better” after a haircut.
It is a fairly stylish little video from the directors of Vogue’s “queer expression from other worlds” — an artsy portrayal of “non-binary” people made up to look like monsters – and Dazed magazine’s “Qween’s Speech”, which features singer Sam Smith and “top surgery” mastectomy scar-bearing others declaring “Let 2020 be the year of the United Queendom”.
In each case, a magazine-style grainy aesthetic with soft colours is perfect for the Instagram generation. But, as with the director’s mainstay of music videos, emotion and artistic expression take precedence over detail. We can all have great sympathy for the lead character’s struggles, but is this a healthy way to write law?
In many ways, an attractive appearance is covering up a wholly gruesome truth. These campaigners advocate easier and quicker access for children to lifelong medicalisation, extreme operations to remove body parts, and more. The young people caught up in gender ideology need compassion and support, not hormones and life-altering surgery.
The aim of Stonewall’s video is clearly to build support for their otherwise stalling “Ban Conversion Therapy” campaign. Until now, the Government has danced to the activists’ tune. Whether agreeing to include transgenderism within a new law or changing the terminology from “conversion therapy” to “conversion practices”, only those pressing for an extreme ban have had much tangible influence.
But as their video demonstrates, this campaign is built on emotion alone. The longer that law-makers spend looking at the detail of ban conversion therapy plans, the less they like it.
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