# Conversion Practices Bill: Concerns About Parenting and Free Speech

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119928486223925677
- Source account: [@BGatesIsaPyscho](https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 2026-11-10
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech) Government wants to pass a bill which will criminalize your conversations with your children in your home.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=5) The state wants to tell you how to parent your children.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=9) You could face up to five years in prison if you do not affirm your child's gender identity.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=14) This is the Conversion Practices Bill. It has been painted up as a necessary bill needed to protect LGBTQ+ people.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=22) In reality, it is trans ideology by the back door and enforcing it in criminal law.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=28) If your child comes to you and says, "Mom, Dad, I think I'm non-binary," and you say, "Non-binary isn't a thing, I don't believe in that," and explain to your child why you think that non-binary isn't a valid concept.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=40) Imagine your child goes back to school and mentions to one of their teachers that their mom and dad are being mean to them because they are not affirming their trans identity.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=49) Because schools will be liable, they will have a responsibility to report the fact that this is going on at home.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=55) This could very quickly lead to the police investigating the way that you are treating your child when all you were trying to do was guide your child away from an ideology that you consider to be harmful and which can lead to young people choosing to go down medical pathways that lead to irreversible damage to their bodies.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=72) The state has no right to tell you the kind of conversations that you should or should not be having with your children at home.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=77) Dennis Kavanagh, a criminal barrister who gave evidence to the joint committee on this bill, says that he thinks the Conversion Practices Bill is right for a declaration of incompatibility with the European Court on Human Rights.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=88) It would be on multiple articles, including Article Nine and 10, your right to freedom of belief and expression.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=94) This bill would wreck every milestone that gender critical feminists have achieved, such as my Forresters judgment in 2021, which meant that gender critical beliefs are protected in law.

[1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=105) Without that protection, there are countless cases at the Free Speech Union which we would not have been able to defend.

[1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=111) The joint committee is asking for written evidence to be submitted to them on the bill.

[1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A1WxIjNDtwNZ/en/conversion-practices-bill-concerns-about-parenting-and-free-speech?t=115) Anyone is allowed to respond to this. The Free Speech Un-