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*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. Conversn therapy, also known as ‘reparative therapy’ or the ‘gay cure, ’ is an extremely harmful practice which assum that cisgenr heterosexualy is the only ‘natural’ way to be, and that beg gay, bisexual, or trans is a disorr.
Instead, they are signed to fd problems and pathology that are simply not there, to nfirm their own assumptns that beg gay is a disorr created childhood trma. Sadly, is reflective of the trsic homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia of society, as well as the unfortable realy that unsellors and psychotherapists are not aquately traed genr, sex, and relatnship diversi (GSRD). In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a nsumer d se agast Jews Offerg New Alternativ for Healg (JONAH) for “dulently claim[g] to provi servic that ‘nvert’ people om gay to straight” New Jersey.
IS GAY CONVERSN THERAPY LEGAL?
Conversn therapy is a practice that attempts to change someone’s sexual orientatn or sexual inty through harmful means; basilly nvertg someone om beg gay to beg straight. Acrdg to the Brish Psychologil Society (BPS), nversn therapy - sometim lled "reparative therapy" or "gay cure therapy" - tri to change someone's sexual orientatn or genr inty.
In practice, means tryg to stop or supprs someone om beg gay, or om intifyg as a different genr to their sex rerd at birth.
Conversn therapy volv practic aimed at changg the sexual orientatn, genr inty or exprsn of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr diverse people. 'Treatments' as torture: gay nversn therapy's ep roots Atralia. Conversn therapy enurag ternalised homophobia, self-hatred, shame and nfn about sexualy and genr inty.