Peruvian president Dina Boluarte signed a decree that defines “transsexualism” and “gender identity disorder in children” as mental illnesses, along with “dual-role transvestitism,” “fetishistic transvestism,” and “other gender identity disorders” listed under the same umbrella.
Pink News reported that ‘the country’s health ministry reportedly claimed following the decree’s announcement that it was the only way it could “guarantee full coverage of medical attention for mental health.”’
Last week, before the bill was signed into law the health ministry said LGBTQIA+ people ‘should not be subjected to so-called “conversion therapies” and pointed to a 2021 resolution which protects against conversion therapy practices.’
Cited by The Telegraph, Percy Mayta-Tristán, a medical researcher at Lima’s Scientific University of the South, said that the law may have been well-intentioned but it revealed a lack of awareness of complex issues surrounding the LGTBQOA+ crowd.
You can’t ignore the context that this is happening in a super-conservative society, where the LGBT community has no rights and where labelling them as mentally ill opens the door to conversion therapy.
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It’s a step in the right direction but it’s nowhere near enough. How about call it sin, wickedness, abomination? That’s of course not going to happen. It’s not “mental illness,” a ruse perpetuated by the false sciences of psychology and psychiatry, it’s sin. Period. But since no one wants to call it that anymore just shows how little teeth this has.
With the world a few weeks away from Pride Month I’m sure there’ll be plenty of protests in Peru to get this reversed.
Proverbs 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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It’s a step in the right direction but it needs to be called what it is: abomination.
If only Great Satan America could follow suit and start banning LGBTQIA sodomy!
Next month, it’s going to be Sodom and Gomorrah Pride Month! Get your tracts ready and start laying them. I recommend Doom Town and The Gay Blade by Chick Publications.
All revolving around Mammon & the antichrist one world religion& system: socialism. $ style or finished BRICS style: attach back to same Harlot, same beast system of the builders who’ve rejected the chief cornerstone which they’re abuilding (& as the Lord allows), & to the same spirit.
Peru got it right. Of course, these people are mentally ill.
I have psychology textbooks that call it “deviancy”.