Board Members Serving Two Masters
In a separate post we cleared up the misinformation about the licensing boards having anything to do with the genesis of SB14, but that brings up two questions we need to address. Where do the loyalties of each professional board member live, and what is their duty towards encouraging TX licensees when it comes to upholding TX law?
Here's the Backdrop
The world is waking up to the atrocity that GAC and its transition process is. Parents are fighting back. The online delusion is waning and counselors and surgeons are rightfully under attack for past atrocities. Our state legislatures are finally recognizing and addressing it with new law. Then there are the diehards.
The "way past salvation" licensed therapists who have drunk the woke kool-aid, swallowed the bait so completely that no amount of logic or moral persuasion will free the hook and reach them. They're led by tenured activists and legacy professional organizations (The Coalition) who refuse to concede their misguided positions. They continue to direct their revenue stream (members) to ignore their state legislature and licensing agency at the risk of financial ruin. Their moral positions somehow override the will of their licensing boards which brings me to my point today.
What Is the Role of The Professional Board Members Here?
If TCA, the state chapter of the ACA, is willing to openly defy State law as it is expressed and enforced by their members' licensing boards, where does that leave the professional board members who may belong to the TCA or another Coalition member? Do you see the conflict?
If a duty-bound member of a mental health licensing board also belongs to a professional organization which is openly encouraging its members to ignore the law and continue to "facilitate" an outlawed treatment procedure, one has to wonder where does that board member place his loyalty? Support the professional org's position or support the legislation the agency they serve is sworn to uphold? You can't serve two masters.
Admittedly, while membership in an organization that encourages its members to flaunt the State that issues its license is not necessarily evidence that a board member is carrying that organization's water, it is a potential conflict that doesn't need to exist.
Actions by Professional Board Members
I see three possible actions from any professional board member who also belongs to TCA or any of the other legacy organizations that make up the unholy alliance calling themselves, "The Coalition" (what other phrase would you use to describe a person or org that promotes the mutilation of minors?).
1. Publicly call on TCA and other coalition members to radically revise their position on GAC.
They should immediately achieve full compliance with TX State law, then openly encourage their members to do the same.
Failing that....
2. Professional board members should immediately cancel their membership with TCA and all other Coalition members.
This would demonstrate loyalty to the Board and the State they serve and clear up any perceived conflict of interest between their professional ethics and their duty to the State. Participation at any of their events should be out of the question until they are in compliance. Even the ACA's newly released code of ethics calls on its members to follow all applicable state laws, and does so numerous times. When does that start??
Any professional board member who is not willing to call for adherence to the law (#1) or separate themselves from any group blatantly encouraging lawless and immoral behavior (#2) has only one option left.
3. Resign their position from their board.
One can't serve two diametrically opposed masters and maintain credibility.
What's The Public Members' Duty Here?
Public members serve to keep the professional members on track. They serve as the citizens' representatives on each board to protect the public from errant licensees and the boards that license them.
The role of the Public Members here is both clear and simple and doesn't require an academic degree or experience in the counseling profession to perform. Your role, Public Members, is to call on each and every Professional Member to act on #1 and #2 above. Do it publicly, do it behind closed doors, just get it done. Failing action from the professional members you should publicly call on them to resign their position so we can get someone in their chair who puts the citizens and State law above their personal beliefs and professional alliances. That's your job.
There Is No Grey Area
We believe that BHEC and it's licensing boards are light-years ahead of where they were six years ago and we will continue to herald that accomplishment and ongoing efforts. But we're in a war, a very real spiritual war for the bodies and souls of our innocent kids and the last thing we need are board members unwilling to do the right thing to achieve the victory.
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