The bill takes a personal identity that is inextricably linked to rejection of the body and defines it as something to be protected against change.
Distress and self-rejection are thus locked in, and child safeguarding is undermined.
Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft bill gets underway on Monday 12 October. Two key questions for the committee are:
- Why is legal protection being put in place for an aspect of personal identity so closely associated with distress about the body?
- What abusive conduct that is not already unlawful will be prohibited under the proposed legislation?
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