The Biden administration has defined "Conversion therapy" as any effort to "Suppress or change an individual's ... gender identity." The Blinken memo cites as an authority the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, an organization that, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, has fallen victim to capture by a small but vocal and well-organized group of ideologues, among them Jack Turban.
The memo relies on the United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, to clarify that "Conversion" means only efforts to change a transgender identity into a "Cisgender one." Thus, a hypothetical scenario in which a child is put under intense pressure to become trans, even if this means medicalization, would technically not count as "Conversion." At the first signs of a child's gender distress or confusion, the only legitimate, "Human rights"-respecting outcome of treatment, according to the Biden administration, is social transition followed, in most cases, by body modification.
Ominously, the Blinken memo defines "Conversion therapy" to include not only "Electric shock" and "Corrective rape" but also "Talk therapy." That's right: using psychotherapy to help a child in distress about her changing body feel more comfortable in it rather than undergo expensive, risky, and irreversible hormonal and surgical interventions is, according to the State Department, no different from electrocuting gays and lesbians in order to "Liberate" them from their innate sexual attractions.
Sweden has banned gender surgeries for minors-surgeries that are practiced in the United States, notwithstanding the repeated gaslighting of gender clinics and left-of-center media outlets.
The Biden administration's manipulation of American public solicitude for gay people in the interest of radical gender policies is nothing short of cynical.
It's hard to see how rushing kids to experimental gender transition in countries without proper medical infrastructure serves their health needs.
In line with Tip O'Neill's famous observation that "All politics is local," Biden's order to the State Department and Secretary Blinken's interpretation of that order are, in all likelihood, driven more by domestic political calculation than by strategic consideration about protecting human rights abroad. As Biden himself made clear at the time, EO 14075 was a response to Republican-held states passing laws like Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act and various bans on pediatric medical transition.
https://www.city-journal.org/state-dept-launches-international-gender-pressure-campaign
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