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Conversion therapy: Ban to go ahead but not cover trans people
The government now says it will ban so-called conversion therapy for gay or bisexual people in England and Wales - but not for transgender people.
By Sophie Gallagher Josh Parry
BC News
April 1, 2022
It comes hours after it had said it would drop plans for the ban entirely.The announcement on Thursday evening that ministers would explore non-legislative routes to stop the practice was criticised by LGBT groups and MPs.
According to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.
NHS England and other major psychological bodies in the UK have warned all forms of conversion therapy are "unethical and potentially harmful".
A senior government source has told the BBC the ban will feature in the next Queen's Speech.
The legislation will mean therapy to attempt to change people's sexuality will be outlawed, but those practices carried out to try to change people's gender identity will not.
We were not thrown under the bus by gays and lesbians but by the right-wing conservatives.
But the announcement that the ban will not cover gender identity has been met with criticism from some MPs and charities.
The Rainbow Project, said any ban that did not include transgender people was "not a real ban". Labour MP Nadia Whittome said it was "still not good enough", before adding: "LGB comes with the T, and the Tories are not on our side".
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Jayne Ozanne, a conversion therapy survivor and chair of the #BanConversionTherapy coalition, accused Boris Johnson of throwing LGBT people under a bus, adding it was "utterly ludicrous" that transgender people were not included in the ban.
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