Mick Hartley

Astonishing. We knew the SNP was way down the gender rabbit hole, but still:

Parents who refuse to allow their children to change gender would face up to seven years in jail under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”.

Proposals published on Tuesday state that actions designed to “change or suppress” another individual’s gender identity, causing them physical or psychological harm, would become illegal under the radical law.

SNP ministers acknowledged that so-called conversion practices often took place in a “family setting”, raising the prospect that parents could be criminalised if they refuse to go along with their child’s declaration that they are transgender.

Stopping someone from “dressing in a way that reflects their sexual orientation or gender identity” was put forward as an example of an action that would become illegal, even if a parent believed they were acting in a child’s best interests.

Parents trying to stop a confused child from ruining their lives, to be jailed for up to seven years? It's terrifying. Gender identity is a chimera; a fantasy. It's not real.

Those accused of conversion therapy would have a legal defence if they could show their actions were “reasonable”.

However, this would apply only in “a very small number of circumstances” such as to prevent a child “from engaging in illegal or dangerous behaviour”.

Anyone breaching a civil order, which could be obtained by social workers or activist groups on behalf of alleged victims, could face two years behind bars.

The maximum penalty for those guilty of a criminal offence would be seven years in jail, an unlimited fine, or both.

The SNP has chosen to push ahead with the law despite the damage inflicted on the party by Nicola Sturgeon’s controversial gender self-ID law, which was blocked by the UK Government.

After male rapists were placed in women's jails. But still they persist with the gender nonsense.