A draft Conversion Practices Bill would define conversion practices in the UK as any activity intended to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, creating new criminal offences punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment.
Initially proposed in 2018 by former Prime Minister Theresa May, debates centred on scope and implementation, with subsequent governments failing to draft any Bill.
While LGBT campaigners argue that the protections are well overdue, Barrister Dennis Kavanagh told GB News the bill could expose parents, teachers and doctors to prosecution if refusing to use a person’s preferred name or pronouns is deemed a conversion practice. Read more at The Guardian, Church Times, Politics UK and GB News on X.
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Really just a smokescreen for a warped form of Fascism. Take away peoples right to object to bizarre things, and then gradually eat away at their right to criticise anything.