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Ban on all conversion therapy urgently needed following delays from government, experts warn
People take part in a demonstration outside Downing Street in London, to protest against the exclusion of transgender people from a ban on conversion therapy. Picture date: Sunday April 10, 2022.
A BAN on conversion therapy must be introduced urgently after years of government delays and U-turns, an expert said today.
The government first promised a ban on conversion practices to protect LGBT people in 2018, but former prime minister Boris Johnson dropped the plans for new legislation last year.
A government spokesperson said at the time that it would look at how the existing law could be applied more effectively and explore other measures over the “complexities and sensitivities.”
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