Play Brightve vio</tle><path fill-le="evenodd" clip-le="evenodd" d="M0.542124 0.110987C0.875033 -0.0604726 1.27584 -0.031568 1.5807 0.185886L14.5807 9.45861C14.8479 9.6492 15.0046 9.95875 14.9999 10.2869C14.9952 10.6151 14.8299 10.9201 14.5574 11.103L1.55738 19.8303C1.2507 20.0361 0.85551 20.0562 0.529562 19.8824C0.203615 19.7087 0 19.3694 0 19V1C0 0.625535 0.209216 0.282447 0.542124 0.110987Z" fill="whe"/></svg></i></button></div><vio-js data-acunt="2821697655001" data-player="B1J9ApOVZ" data-embed="flt" ntrols="" data-vio-id="6302980681001" data-playlist-id="" data-applitn-id="" class="_4h-ua"></vio-js></div><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Anrson said he was rigng om his role as the LGBT bs champn bee the ernment is "tryg to drive a wedge" between transgenr and lbian, gay and bisexual people, he said.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Bra needs a strategy for trans people and I n’t see one at the moment," he said.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We have a tabloid bate gog on about people’s liv. It’s not a rpectful bate, 's turned to a woke war. It's turned to a wedge issue... I was LGBT bs champn not LGB or T, and that’s why I’m walkg away."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Anrson told ITV News that not even Equali Mister Liz Tss (who is also foreign secretary) was aware of plans to drop the nversn therapy ban, nor were any of the ernment's team of LGBT+ advisers - until ITV News published s report on Thursday.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The plan to scrap the ban was revealed on Transgenr Visibily Day, on which Mr Anrson ma mments public that the ernment had an clive approach to a flagship nversn therapy ban to clu all LGBT+ people - "until changed twice on Thursday".</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I do feel unrmed," Mr Anrson said, addg: "This me as a plete bolt out of the blue. Not jt to me but to Liz Tss and the ernment's LGBT envoy. It me on the very day of Internatnal Transgenr Visibily. I was pletely shocked." </p><div class="qNUzV Z4snd" data-ttid="article-lk"><div class="-VoCt"><a class="WPcEk" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2022-03-31/gay-nversn-therapy-will-be-scrapped-followg-v-news-report">Gay nversn therapy will be scrapped followg ITV News report</a><i class="cp_in cp_in__chevron cp_in--base uQW1m" aria-hidn="te"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="20" viewBox="0 0 12 20" fill="none" role="img"> <path fill-le="evenodd" clip-le="evenodd" d="M0.256714 0.331044C0.626173 -0.0794661 1.25846 -0.112744 1.66897 0.256714L11.669 9.25671C11.8797 9.44635 12 9.71651 12 10C12 10.2835 11.8797 10.5537 11.669 10.7433L1.66897 19.7433C1.25846 20.1127 0.626173 20.0795 0.256714 19.669C-0.112744 19.2584 -0.0794661 18.6262 0.331044 18.2567L9.50515 10L0.331044 1.7433C-0.0794661 1.37384 -0.112744 0.741553 0.256714 0.331044Z" fill="#FFF"/> </svg></i></div></div><div class="qNUzV Z4snd" data-ttid="article-lk"><div class="-VoCt"><a class="WPcEk" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2022-04-04/relig-lears-ll-on-pm-to-clu-trans-people--nversn-therapy-ban">100 groups pull out of LGBT+ nference over nversn therapy ban chang</a><i class="cp_in cp_in__chevron cp_in--base uQW1m" aria-hidn="te"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="20" viewBox="0 0 12 20" fill="none" role="img"> <path fill-le="evenodd" clip-le="evenodd" d="M0.256714 0.331044C0.626173 -0.0794661 1.25846 -0.112744 1.66897 0.256714L11.669 9.25671C11.8797 9.44635 12 9.71651 12 10C12 10.2835 11.8797 10.5537 11.669 10.7433L1.66897 19.7433C1.25846 20.1127 0.626173 20.0795 0.256714 19.669C-0.112744 19.2584 -0.0794661 18.6262 0.331044 18.2567L9.50515 10L0.331044 1.7433C-0.0794661 1.37384 -0.112744 0.741553 0.256714 0.331044Z" fill="#FFF"/> </svg></i></div></div><div class="qNUzV Z4snd" data-ttid="article-lk"><div class="-VoCt"><a class="WPcEk" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2018-11-12/an-v-news-unrver-vtigatn-expos-the--church-that-claims-you-dont-have-to-be-gay">Revealed: The UK church that claims God n fix gay people</a><i class="cp_in cp_in__chevron cp_in--base uQW1m" aria-hidn="te"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="20" viewBox="0 0 12 20" fill="none" role="img"> <path fill-le="evenodd" clip-le="evenodd" d="M0.256714 0.331044C0.626173 -0.0794661 1.25846 -0.112744 1.66897 0.256714L11.669 9.25671C11.8797 9.44635 12 9.71651 12 10C12 10.2835 11.8797 10.5537 11.669 10.7433L1.66897 19.7433C1.25846 20.1127 0.626173 20.0795 0.256714 19.669C-0.112744 19.2584 -0.0794661 18.6262 0.331044 18.2567L9.50515 10L0.331044 1.7433C-0.0794661 1.37384 -0.112744 0.741553 0.256714 0.331044Z" fill="#FFF"/> </svg></i></div></div><hr/><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Tory MP Jamie Wallis, who jt last week me out as trans, said the ernment had broken a promise.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I'm bterly disappoted at the ernment’s cisn not to clu genr inty the ban on nversn therapy," he said.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"If the nversn therapy ban pass through parliament whout any protectns for the transgenr muny, nnot be 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