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      In the sense that the UK isn’t likely to force my queer daughter into a conversion camp in the near future, no.

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          Right, because Labour, (and the Tories and the Lib Dems) are all totally homophobic just like Republicans.

          What the fuck are you talking about?

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            I’m just saying that I think this particular fear you have is roughly equally likely. Maybe the likelihood of it happening in the US is double or triple than the UK, but I think that would put the likelihood only from 0.01% to 0.03%, so basically the same.

            Forcing queers (~8% of the population) in re-education camps would incite riots. They won’t do it.

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              Did you listen to the King’s speech this year? I doubt it.

              Did you know that the King’s speech lays out government policy? I also doubt it.

              Did you know that the King’s speech this year included making conversion therapy illegal? I really doubt it.

              Meanwhile, in the U.S., there’s project 2025 and prominent republicans literally calling for trans genocide.

              Forcing queers (~8% of the population) in re-education camps would incite riots. They won’t do it.

              Yeah, remember how that happened in Germany in the 1930s when queer people were put in camps and then there was a big riot and they all got freed? No, neither do I.

              Remember how it wasn’t even legal to be queer in America until 2003? I do.