{"id":1416051,"date":"2022-04-02T11:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416051"},"modified":"2022-04-02T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:29:50","slug":"uk-conversion-therapy-ban-will-not-cover-transgenders-after-multiple-govt-u-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-conversion-therapy-ban-will-not-cover-transgenders-after-multiple-govt-u-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#039;Conversion Therapy&#039; Ban Will Not Cover Transgenders After Multiple Govt U-Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-conversion-therapy-ban-will-not-cover-transgenders-after-multiple-govt-u-turns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An upcoming ban on LGBT \u201cconversion therapy\u201d in England will not cover transgenderism after multiple U-turns by Boris Johnson\u2019s government on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative Party government has long been planning to impose a ban on conversion therapy, sought voluntarily or otherwise, in an attempt to curry favour with left-liberals, but started to get cold feet after concerns were raised that it might lead to the criminalisation of parents, social workers, and health professionals who did anything other than affirm the identity of supposedly transgender children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>LGBT activist Jayne Ozanne,\u00a0chairwoman of the Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition and a former member of the government\u2019s LGBT advisory panel, had even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2021\/06\/18\/lgbt-activist-calls-for-ban-on-gentle-non-coercive-prayer-for-gays\/\">pushed<\/a> for the ban to include \u201cgentle non-coercive prayer\u201d by Bible-believing Christians, which she branded \u201chate prayer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening \u2014 less than a day after\u00a0Equalities Minister Mike Freer had told Parliament that the government \u201cremain[ed] wholly committed to bringing forward proposals to ban conversion therapy practices\u201d \u2014 the Prime Minister\u2019s spokeswoman said that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/boris-johnson-does-double-u-turn-on-lgbt-conversion-therapy-ban-kgbt9n75n\">actually<\/a>, the ban was being dropped, and that the government had \u201cdecided to proceed by reviewing how existing law can be deployed more effectively to prevent this in the quickest way possible and explore the use of other non-legislative measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This earned a predictable backlash from the LGBT lobby, left-wing MPs, and left-liberal-leaning MPs from Johnson\u2019s own party, and the Prime Minister, as is often his wont, quickly caved \u2014 but in a characteristically half-baked manner, with a conversion therapy ban now reportedly to go ahead but only covering sexual orientation, not gender identity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former government LGBT advisor Jayne Ozanne has insisted that \u201cgentle non-coercive prayer\u201d should be included in UK legislation banning &#8220;conversion therapy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vzRUVKdfRN\">https:\/\/t.co\/vzRUVKdfRN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1405940875470028802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems to have achieved the effect of riling both sides of the debate and pleasing no one, with Ozanne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-60947028\">described<\/a> as a \u201cconversion therapy survivor\u201d by the notionally impartial BBC, suggesting that Johnson had thrown LGBT people under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should quacks and charlatans be allowed to continue to cause life-long harm to them?\u201d complained\u00a0Alicia Kearns, a liberal Tory MP.<\/p>\n<p>Nikki Da Costa, former director of legislative affairs at Downing Street, warned that including transgenderism in a conversion therapy ban would have \u201ccreate[d] a situation where doctors, therapists, even parents, would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on for fear that they will be told they are trying to change a child\u2019s identity,\u201d however,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the desire to bring forward something very symbolic and important [the ban\u2019s supporters] glossed over a lot of these issues with profound consequences for children,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Internal documents leaked to ITV News acknowledged that the now-ditched plan to drop the ban altogether would lead to \u201cnoisy backlash from LGBT groups and some parliamentarians when we announce we do not intend to proceed\u201d \u2014 but with the government having rolled over to this backlash regardless of having anticipated it, it remains to be seen whether further U-turns on the issue will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kids Being \u2018Groomed\u2019 into Copycat Sex Swaps, Warns Whistleblower at School with 17 \u2018Trans Pupils\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/76ywRrEzVF\">https:\/\/t.co\/76ywRrEzVF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1064522432042528768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming ban on LGBT \u201cconversion therapy\u201d in England will not cover transgenderism after multiple U-turns by Boris Johnson\u2019s government on the issue. 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