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Yes, please. I appreciate the Member's giving way. I hope to make a contribution to the debate, so I would certainly welcome a commitment from the Alliance Party that it will not seek to guillotine the debate, as it did the previous debate on another Member's Bill. To be fair to Mr Tennyson, he can be very combative…
I thank the Member for giving way. At the moment, if a parent has a child who is 16 years old, and that parent grounds, disciplines or engages in normal and ordinary parental control of that child, that behaviour could, in theory, be tested against existing domestic abuse legislation. Can the Member point to one…
I will come on to your point. Clause 2 is titled "Offence of engaging in coercive conversion behaviour". What is coercive conversion behaviour? We are told, at clause 5, that that means "behaviour ... that is violent". No one will support violent behaviour. It is "behaviour ... that is threatening". It is:…
It is because I do not want people to be prosecuted for believing that there are only males and females, as the majority of people believe. That is what the consequence of the Bill would be, and I will come on to that. I will have to be more cautious about giving way. Let me move on. Clause 2 —.
FlaggedGender, sexuality, abortion and related social issuesCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging.
I thank the Member for giving way. The Member talks about making a general point, and I understand Mrs Cameron's point. She may have gay friends and people whom she loves who are gay, trans or whatever else. We are here to discuss the general principles of the Bill. If the Member's general point is on what I spoke…
I want to make a general point. For young people, adolescents and teenagers, growing up is a time of confusion and change. Many of those who experience gender confusion or dysphoria find that their distress decreases over time, as they grow older and accept their natural bodies. Some people realise that their distress…
FlaggedGender, sexuality, abortion and related social issuesCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.
I thank the Member for giving way. We have heard quite a bit tonight about rights. I sense that, from that side of the Chamber, there is a supremacy of rights, meaning that those who are LGBTQ+ — whatever — have more rights than those who sit elsewhere and share my Christian, conservative rights. At what point does a…
FlaggedGender, sexuality, abortion and related social issuesCriteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.