As of this writing, Governor Bruce Rauner has not yet taken action on HB 217, the bill that seeks to prohibit minors from receiving any counseling that involves efforts to change homoerotic desire, homoerotic activity, gender-confused feelings, and behaviors impelled by gender confusion. If he does not take action, the bill will become law.
This bill makes no distinction between coercive, abusive therapies–which IFI opposes–and talk therapies. This bill would prohibit minors who may have developed same-sex attraction as a result of molestation from seeking counseling to help them align their feelings with their self-identity. While “progressives” fight for the right of gender-confused minors to access medical help in rejecting their physical embodiment, through this bill, “progressives” are fighting to rob other minors of the right to access medical help in rejecting their same-sex attraction or gender confusion.
Gov. Rauner has 60 days to act from the time a bill is sent to his desk. HB 217 was sent to the governor on June 26th.
This anti-autonomy bill serves only the interests and profoundly selfish desires of adults committed to forcing the acceptance of their perverse sexuality ideology on the entire culture. It is not an effort to protect children.
Take ACTION: Please call the governor’s constituent comment lines and urge him to veto HB 217. Calls are needed into both offices:
Springfield: (217) 782-0244 and
Chicago: (312) 814-2121.
Please call today!
Please support IFI as we fight for liberty & work to advance the truth
about the sanctity of life & importance of marriage in our culture!
