It’s the first day back from the Christmas holidays. Your 12-year-old son comes down the stairs, ready for school. You take a second look. He’s in a skirt, heels, and lipstick.
Do you have a right to ask him to change?
Under new proposals in Scotland, you could face criminal penalties if you ask him to do so repeatedly – on “at least two occasions.”
Perhaps your son, in retaliation against your repeatedly expressed concerns, reports you to local authorities. He feels “distressed,” he says, because you are being “controlling,” or “pressuring” him to “act in a certain way.”
According to the draft “conversion therapy ban” opened to public consultation this week, you’ve now met the threshold – you’re accused of adopting a “coercive course of behaviour in the context of conversion practices.”
Your crime carries a potential penalty of up to seven years…
