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Are New Zealand schools potentially in breach of the Ardern government’s proposed ban on “conversion therapy”?
As revealed by Waikanae Watch blog, and reported on The BFD, two photos of classroom materials used in at least one New Zealand high school are decidedly creepy. The material, given to 14-year-olds at a Christchurch school, first leads them to identify with one of a cluster of made-up “genders”.
Worse, the material also directs children to question their sexual identity.
At the very least, the material is creepily redolent of predatory grooming. It is well known that paedophiles groom children by first exposing them to seemingly innocent material, which gradually becomes more explicit, with the aim of making children susceptible to advances.
It seems difficult to see the material as anything other than a sleazy attempt to recruit children into “Queerness”. (Bear in mind, especially, that a core tenet of “Queer Theory” is to disrupt capitalism by destroying the heterosexual foundations of the traditional family: literally denying capitalism the “breeders” of their next generation of workers.)
Try to answer each question as though you are heterosexual:
1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
2. When and how did you first decide you were heterosexual?
3. Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
4. Is it possibile that your heterosexuality stems from a fear of others of the same sex?
5. If you have never slept with a member of your own sex is it possible that you might be gay if you tried it?
6. If heterosexuality is normal why are so many mental patients heterosexual?
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What’s immediately obvious is the slant of the entire questionnaire. From its opening instruction, it actively leads children to question their heterosexuality. “As though you are heterosexual” tacitly implies that the child is not.
The rest of the questionnaire adds up to relentless bullying: “Are you gay? Why not? Are you sure? Really sure? Try gay sex. Go on, try gay sex?” and so on.
Defenders of the questionnaire might argue that it’s merely meant to “generate empathy” by “turning the tables” and subjecting heterosexuals to the sort of questioning that homosexuals were once subject to.
But there are a number of issues with this excuse.
Firstly, it’s pretty weak. Like the “We’re Coming for Your Kids” video, beneath the “cheeky” surface lurks a whole lot of sleazy undertones (and at least four alleged child sex offenders). We’re all familiar with the sort of creepy chancer who makes sleazy sexual innuendos and then exclaims, “It was only a joke!”
Secondly: two wrongs don’t make a right. Bullying heterosexual children today for the supposed sins of the past is plainly immoral and pointless.
But the second objection raises a third, much more serious point:
Is this material tantamount to “conversion therapy”?
Will NZ schools be in breach of Ardern’s Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill?
After all:
The bill makes it illegal for anybody to undertake conversion practice on a person under the age of 18 or on any person who lacks the mental ability to grasp the nature and implications of decisions affecting their health […] consent of the person undergoing such practices is not a defense.
Jurist
Of course, one of the major problems with the proposed legislation is its vagueness: what exactly is “conversion practice”? According to the Bill, it is:
any practice that—
(a) is directed towards an individual because of the individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression; and
(b) is performed with the intention of changing or suppressing the individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
New Zealand Legislation
Clearly, the school material is directed at the children’s sexual orientation and “gender identity”. It explicitly targets heterosexuality.
Whether it is intended to change or suppress the children’s heterosexual orientation is at the very least arguable. A good lawyer would surely make a strong case for the affirmative.
If nothing else, consider if, for instance, a Christian school handed out a questionnaire, badgering homosexual students to reconsider their sexual orientation.
They’d be hauled in front of a magistrate and banged-up with three years jail, before you could say “Mates and Dates”.
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