{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Point: New Canadian Law Denies Some People Exist","description":" Canada has just adopted a new ban on so-called \u201cconversion therapy\u201d that criminalizes any \u201cpractice, treatment, or service\u201d designed to change, repress, or reduce a person\u2019s same-sex attraction or transgender identity.  According to WORLD, the ban covers even the mildest forms of \u201ctalk therapy,\u201d including counseling for adults who want to de-transition. So, in effect, Canada is denying that people even exist who detransition or who may legitimately want help reconciling themselves with their biological sex. And offering that service is punishable by up to five years in prison. The lack of science behind this law is staggering. As Canadian clinical psychologist James Cantor points out there\u2019s not a single study showing harm from so-called \u201ctransgender conversion therapy.\u201d It could, in fact, be desperately needed, since up to 80 percent of minors with gender dysphoria will desist at puberty.  This Canadian law isn\u2019t designed to protect patients. Rather, it is designed to protect the convenient fiction that transgender feelings are unchangeable. We know this narrative is false.  Though Canadian lawmakers may want to pretend de-transitioners don\u2019t exist, that\u2019s as much a denial of reality as believing someone can change their biological sex in the first place. ","author_name":"Breakpoint","author_url":"https:\/\/breakpoint.org","html":"