Sue Pascoe: Conversion therapy should be banned for gender identity

Along with others, I have lost trust and confidence in the leadership of the EHRC to properly protect the rights of LGBT+ people.

Anonymous: Adding gender identity to any bill to ban conversion therapy risks more harm to children

Professionals should not be compelled to offer only ‘affirmation’ to young people looking for guidance.

Alicia Kearns: Let’s interrogate the attacks on the conversion therapy ban

It only targets quacks and charlatans who profit off misery, bigotry, and torture. Let’s leave the real professionals to do their jobs.

Maya Forstater: A conversion therapy ban threatens to leave unhappy children medicalised, sterilised and sexually impaired

The promoters of the ban have used condemnation of abhorrent gay conversion therapy to promote a much wider ban.

Emily Carver: If our choices are lawful, can we really trust the state to judge which ones will harm us?

Much like a parent intent on disciplining their naughty child, this Government’s preferred policy tool seems to be prohibition.

Peter Lynas: The Government is digging itself deep into trouble over conversion therapy

So it has committed to banning something it is reluctant to define, and ending something that is already unlawful.