Sunak Apologiz for Historic Treatment of UK Gay Veterans

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• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

*Government lays ban for five years*Prsure on Sunak to act*LGBTQ+ activists fear loophol*Campaigners divid over trans rightsBy Lucy MiddletonLONDON, July 20 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old’s parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of chose optn one and unrwent multiple ssns wh elrs om the fay’s Jehovah’s Wns ngregatn, seekg a ‘cure’ for homosexualy. A ernment survey showed that more than half of Brons who had tried nversn therapy were offered through a relig group, almost 12% were signposted by a health re Ozanne, a gay evangelil her 50s who chairs the UK’s Ban Conversn Therapy Coaln, sought treatment her 20s and 30s, after fallg love wh a procs led to hospal admissn for a nervo breakdown.

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U. ”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U.

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, " Sunak told Parliament.

It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc. Veterans' ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said.

Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, " Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy. (Bloomberg) -- Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized for the UK’s historic treatment of gay veterans followg a damng report tailg electric shock nversn therapy, sexual asslts and blackmail suffered by personnel over Read om BloombergApple Tts ‘Apple GPT, ’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAIA $500 Billn Corporate-Debt Storm Builds Over Global EnomyNalla’s Microsoft Payouts Top $1 Billn on 1, 000% Stock BoomMk Says Tla to Spend Over $1 Billn on Dojo SuperputerIn London, New York and Paris, a Giant Office Bet Is Gog Wrong #PMQs — Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) July 19, 2023The ban on gay and trans people servg the Brish ary, which was lifted 2000, was an “appallg failure of the Brish state, s behd the law of this land, ” Sunak told the Hoe of Commons on Wednday.

”Jt before Sunak stood up Parliament, the Mistry of Defence published a ernment-missned vtigatn — a draft of which was seen by Bloomberg May — that clud anonymo ttimony om gay veterans exposg how personnel were still beg referred to doctors for electric-shock nversn therapy as recently as the 1990s, spe homosexualy beg legal sce prime mister’s apology and the MoD’s statement that accepted the report’s 49 remendatns “ prciple” open up the prospect of pensatn for those who suffered unr the historic remendatns by Terence Etherton, the cross-bench member of the Hoe of Lords who led the probe, clu as much as £50 ln ($65 ln) of total pensatn for the policy’s victims, an examatn of their pensn rights and dividual letters of apology. “The report is a unique rerd of what, to the morn eye, is an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc, ” Etherton wrote a preface to the report. ”The vtigatn, which exposed a “culture of homophobia” that existed the Brish ary for s, also tails the signifint toll on the mental health of veterans that some s led to homelsns and suici.

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament. Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

Report tails homophobia armed forc om 1967 to 2000UK to accept advice to rtore medals, exame pensn rightsRishi Sunak on July 19. Ratcliffe/BloombergJuly 19, 2023 at 7:05 AM EDTUpdated on July 19, 2023 at 8:46 AM EDTPrime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized for the UK’s historic treatment of gay veterans followg a damng report tailg electric shock nversn therapy, sexual asslts and blackmail suffered by personnel over NextSunak Apologiz for Historic Treatment of UK Gay Veterans.