Hey folks!
It's me, Michael Bach,
and this is Monday Morning Musings.
Happy Monday,
I hope this finds you well, safe, healthy,
and not hermetically sealed in your homes,
because of the Omicron variant.
Agh, yay Covid.
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I wanted to talk about something that happened, last week.
Here in the great white North,
and that is that the Canadian government,
introduced legislation to ban conversion therapy in Canada,
and it passed unanimously,
and in fact it was the Conservative party,
a member of the Conservative Party that moved the motion,
to immediately adopt the legislation,
and if you're not familiar with what conversion therapy is,
you clearly are living under a rock, but that's okay.
Conversion therapy is a pseudoscience treatment,
using both physical and,
psychological manipulation to change a person's sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
I call it a pseudoscience, because it's not science at all,
it is a so-called therapy that has been de-bunked and decried,
by anyone who actually knows what they're talking about.
It has been a long time coming, since the,
that we could have this ban.
Conversion therapy doesn't work.
You know, there are X gay organizations,
all around the world,
that help people to heal from converted therapy,
because there is so much stigma still attached,
to being LGBTQ2S+,
and so they,
you know, people continue to try to convert,
because they don't want to be queer,
they don't want to be trans,
they don't want to be a lesbian,
and so they go for conversion therapy and find it doesn't work,
and it universally doesn't work.
It is a horrible practice, at times they have used
electroshock and physical violence against people,
to get them to them to stop,
and now in Canada it stops,
and it is illegal to send someone for conversion therapy,
it's illegal across the country,
and I'm really thrilled they did this.
It's about time, and
I was watching Canada's drag race last night,
and this week's episode, or last week's episode I guess, 'cause I'm behind,
was high school prom, the queer prom,
and they brought five, it was a makeover challenge,
they brought in five LGBTQ2S+ high school students,
and they made them over, and gave them the opportunity to shine.
It was beautiful,
it was touching.
I cried like a baby,
because it was so counter to my experience.
I came out in the late 1900's, as the young people are calling it today.
In 1987, in a time when,
it was, not illegal, but certainly not acceptable to be openly LGBTQ2+,
and I lived through some pretty hard times.
It really messed up my life at one point,
but I've come away from it a better person,
but I look at these moments now,
and I think yeah, this is, we're getting there,
we still have a long way to go, long way to go,
but at least we're working towards it,
and we see governments of the day recognizing the importance,
and not just governments of the day, but also the opposition,
that the Conservative party got behind this,
so it goes to the Senate now,
and hopefully it will be passed without issue,
and hopefully it will be passed very quickly.
That's it for me,
don't go away.
I want to share something with you at the end of this video.
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Alphabet Soup: The Essential Guide to LGBTQ2+ Inclusion,
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Birds of All Feathers: Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right.
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So I asked you to stick around,
thank you for doing that.
A company called "Posten Norge",
I'm probably not saying that right, but it's the postal service of Norway,
has released a video,
and I posted an article down below,
but I'm actually gonna share the video with you,
and it's called "When Harry met Santa",
and it was produced to mark the 50 year anniversary, since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Norway.
I just watched it,
I'm still crying a tiny bit.
It's beautiful, and I just wanted to share with you,
so enjoy,
and we will see you next week for another episode of Monday Morning Musings, bye.